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CVE-2019-16777 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 Third Party Advisory 
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-16777
NVD Published Date:
12/12/2019
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
GitHub, Inc.