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CVE-2015-3297

high
Published 2017-07-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in node/utils/Minify.js in Etherpad 1.1.1 through 1.5.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging replacement of backslashes with slashes in the path parameter of HTTP API requests.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
etherpadetherpad1.1.1
etherpadetherpad1.1.2
etherpadetherpad1.1.3
etherpadetherpad1.1.4
etherpadetherpad1.1.5
etherpadetherpad1.2.0
etherpadetherpad1.2.1
etherpadetherpad1.2.2
etherpadetherpad1.2.3
etherpadetherpad1.2.4
etherpadetherpad1.2.5
etherpadetherpad1.2.6
etherpadetherpad1.2.7
etherpadetherpad1.2.8
etherpadetherpad1.2.9
etherpadetherpad1.2.10
etherpadetherpad1.2.11
etherpadetherpad1.2.12
etherpadetherpad1.2.81
etherpadetherpad1.2.91
etherpadetherpad1.3.0
etherpadetherpad1.4.0
etherpadetherpad1.4.1
etherpadetherpad1.5.0
etherpadetherpad1.5.1
etherpadetherpad1.5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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