CVE-2018-3732 — resolve-path node module before 1

resolve-path node module before 1.4.0 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to lack of validation of paths with certain special characters, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.

01What is this vulnerability?

resolve-path node module before 1.4.0 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to lack of validation of paths with certain special characters, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
HackerOne	resolve	path node module — Versions before 1.4.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T23:11:35.184Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/pillarjs/resolve-path/commit/fe5b8052cafd35fcdafe9210e100e905…
• hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/315760