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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2019-5437 json

Unauthorized File Access in harp

published 2019-05-10 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-46hv-7769-j7rx , EUVD-2019-0496

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Information exposure through the directory listing in npm's harp module allows to access files that are supposed to be ignored according to the harp server rules.Vulnerable versions are <= 0.29.0 and no fix was applied to our knowledge.

Patch / fix

  • npm harp 0.40.2

Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • hackerone.com https://hackerone.com/reports/453820 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm harp
<0.40.2
0.40.2

Affected products

  • n/a harp

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-548 Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.