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Improper Privilege Management Affecting npm package, versions <1:6.13.4-1.10.19.0.1.module+el8.1.0+5552+3cab52c0

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-NPM-2547158
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 13 Dec 2019
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Introduced: 13 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-16777 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-269 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 npm to version 1:6.13.4-1.10.19.0.1.module+el8.1.0+5552+3cab52c0 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-0579.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm package and not the npm package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • 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
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SUSE

7.7 high
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Red Hat

4.8 medium