CVE-2018-16493

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.76% (78th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

A path traversal vulnerability was found in module static-resource-server 1.7.2 that allows unauthorized read access to any file on the server by appending slashes in the URL.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-548USCWE-548US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HackerOne static-resource-server≤ 1.7.2enisa_euvdEU
static-resource-server project static-resource-server= 1.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:static-resource-server_project:static-resource-server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm static-resource-server≤ 1.7.2osvUSpkg:npm/static-resource-server

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-45j8-pm75-5v8xPath Traversal in simplehttpserver2019-02-07ghsa · osvUS
Versions of `simplehttpserver` prior to 0.2.1 are vulnerable to Path Traversal. Due to insufficient input sanitization, attackers can access server files by using relative paths. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 0.2.1 or later.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-02-01modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

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