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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2019-5437

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

Information exposure through the directory listing in npm's harp module before 0.40.2 allows to access files that are supposed to be ignored according to the harp server rules.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published