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CVE-2019-16777

CVSS v3.1 6.5 (Medium)
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CVSS v2.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
EPSS 0.19 % (56th)
0.19% Progress
Affected Products 6
Advisories 17
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Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.

Weaknesses
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-269
Improper Privilege Management
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
GitHub, Inc.
Published Date
2019-12-13 01:15:11
(4 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:05:43
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Fedoraproject

Npmjs

Opensuse

Oracle

Redhat

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Npmjs Npm prior 6.13.4 version cpe:2.3:a:npmjs:npm < 6.13.4

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Opensuse Leap 15.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Oracle Graalvm 19.3.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:19.3.0.2:*:*:*:enterprise

Configuration #4

    CPE23 From Up To
  Fedoraproject Fedora 31 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Configuration #5

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0
  Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.1 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1