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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package npm  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-NPM-9864536
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed12 Dec 2019
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Introduced: 12 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-16777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm package and not the npm package as distributed by RHEL.

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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