CVE-2014-6394: Apple Xcode

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

visionmedia send before 0.8.4 for Node.js uses a partial comparison for verifying whether a directory is within the document root, which allows remote attackers to access restricted directories, as demonstrated using "public-restricted" under a "public" directory.

Affected products

• Apple Xcode: version 7.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 19 only; version 20 only; version 21 only
• Joyent Node.js: up to and including 0.8.3; version 0.8.0 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only

Published 2014-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.