Bug 1203195 (CVE-2015-8856)

Summary:	CVE-2015-8856 serve-index: persistant cross-site scripting flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	tchollingsworth
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	serve-index 1.6.3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1203198, 1203196, 1203197
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-18 11:38:26 UTC

When using serve-index middleware version < 1.6.3 file and directory names are not escaped in HTML output, remote users can influence file or directory names, and trigger a persistent XSS attack.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/expressjs/serve-index/issues/28

External References:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/serve-static-xss

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-18 11:39:00 UTC

Created nodejs-serve-index tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1203196]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1203197]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1203198]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-22 08:03:01 UTC

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/122

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:40:00 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.