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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.7 High

CVE-2019-16777

Arbitrary File Overwrite in npm CLI

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Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

npm cli

  • < 6.13.4 to < 6.13.4affected

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