CVE-2017-16215

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16215 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in sgqserve, a simple file server, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to access arbitrary files on the server's filesystem by manipulating URLs with "../" sequences. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) requires no user interaction or complex attack methods, posing a significant risk of information disclosure. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the ease of exploitation warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:sgqserve_project:sgqserve::::::node.js::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.00%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

78.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-m8pw-hgvj-cwcmhigh

Directory Traversal in sgqserve

Sep 1, 2020

References

github.com / JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/sgqserve

ExploitThird Party Advisory

nodesecurity.io / advisories/419

Third Party Advisory