CVE-2017-16222: Elding Project Elding

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

Affected products

• Elding Project Elding: version 1.0.0 only

Published 2018-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.