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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gitlab-rails-ce-18.6  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GITLABRAILSCE186-14186008
  • published5 Dec 2025
  • disclosed13 Dec 2019
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Introduced: 13 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-16777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab-rails-ce-18.6 package and not the gitlab-rails-ce-18.6 package as distributed by Chainguard.

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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