Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package yarnpkg (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-YARNPKG-16299750
- published26 Apr 2026
- disclosed23 Apr 2026
Introduced: 23 Apr 2026
CVE-2026-41988 (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 yarnpkg package and not the yarnpkg package as distributed by RHEL.
uuid before 14.0.0 can make unexpected writes when external output buffers are used, and the UUID version is 3, 5, or 6. In particular, UUID version 4, which is very commonly used, is unaffected by this issue.