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CVE-2019-16777

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Publication date:
13/12/2019
Last modified:
07/11/2023

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.50
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:npmjs:npm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.13.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:19.3.0.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools