CVE-2017-16222

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16222 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in elding, a simple web server. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by injecting "../" into a URL, potentially accessing arbitrary files on the server, though only files with extensions are returned. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability has low impact (C:L) and requires no user interaction (UI:N). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:elding_project:elding:1.0.0:::::node.js::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.70%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

74.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-rp28-29ch-gh92medium

Directory Traversal in elding

Aug 6, 2018

References

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

ExploitThird Party Advisory

nodesecurity.io / advisories/415

Third Party Advisory