CVE-2014-6394

Exp

visionmedia send before 0.8.4 for Node.js uses a partial comparison for verifying whether a directory is within the document root, which allows remote attackers to access restricted directories, as demonstrated using "public-restricted" under a "public" directory.

Published: 2014-10-08 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-6394 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.2/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.84%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-6394

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-6394

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 6.64% 4.84% -1.80%
2 2025-03-29 4.84% 6.64% +1.80%
3 2025-03-17 4.84%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-6394

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-6394

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-6394

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-6394

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-6394 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (node-send), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6394
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-6394
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-6394 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (node-send), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 6, DNE 3, released 3, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6394

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-6394

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
fedoraproject fedora 19 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 20 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 21 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple xcode 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
joyent node.js <= 0.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:joyent:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
joyent node.js 0.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:joyent:node.js:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
joyent node.js 0.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:joyent:node.js:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
joyent node.js 0.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:joyent:node.js:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-6394

URL Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139938.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140020.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139415.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62170
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146063
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96727
https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a Exploit
https://github.com/visionmedia/send/pull/59
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/send-directory-traversal
https://support.apple.com/HT205217
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