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CVE-2018-3766 — buttle

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CVE-2018-3766 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal vulnerability in buttle. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Path Traversal in buttle

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 10, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.9%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs79th percentile — riskier than 79% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.81%1.61%2.42%0.4%1.9%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2018-3766 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

0other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
buttlenpm
20downloads / week

Description

All versions of buttle are vulnerable to Path Traversal. Due to insufficient input sanitization, attackers can access server files by using relative paths when fetching files.

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative module until a fix is made available.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmbuttleall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
buttlebuttle_project
≤ 0.2.0
range
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

Path traversal in buttle module versions <= 0.2.0 allows to read any fil…

hackerone.comNVDOct 2019

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for buttle, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of buttle has shipped for CVE-2018-3766 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.

Frequently Asked Questions

All versions of `buttle` are vulnerable to Path Traversal. Due to insufficient input sanitization, attackers can access server files by using relative paths when fetching files. ## Recommendation No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative module until a fix is made available.
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CVE-2018-3766: buttle: Path Traversal