Bug 1203195 (CVE-2015-8856) - CVE-2015-8856 serve-index: persistant cross-site scripting flaw
Summary: CVE-2015-8856 serve-index: persistant cross-site scripting flaw
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8856
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1203198 1203196 1203197
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-18 11:38 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:31 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: serve-index 1.6.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:40:00 UTC
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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.
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