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A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system.\n\n**Example request:**\n```http\nGET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1\nhost:foo\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nNo patch is available for this vulnerability.\n\nIt is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.","status":"published","published":"2018-07-23T20:45:01Z","modified":"2023-09-12T19:34:58Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:37:04.447845Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2017-16174","description":"whispercast is a file server. whispercast is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing \"../\" in the url.","status":"published","published":"2018-06-07T02:29:05.487Z","modified":"2026-06-17T01:08:55.307Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:04:17.638656Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-m874-69ww-w7jq","title":"Directory Traversal in whispercast","description":"Affected versions of `whispercast` resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. 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