Unauthorized File Access Affecting bin-links package, versions <1.1.5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-BINLINKS-537609
- published 12 Dec 2019
- disclosed 11 Dec 2019
- credit Daniel Ruf
Introduced: 11 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-16775 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade bin-links to version 1.1.5 or higher.
Overview
bin-links is a .bin/ script linker package.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unauthorized File Access. It is possible for packages to create symlinks to files outside of thenode_modules folder through the bin field upon installation.
For npm, a properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would allow a package publisher to create a symlink pointing to arbitrary files on a user’s system when the package is installed. This behaviour is possible through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.