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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs-docs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NODEJSDOCS-1367624
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-docs package and not the nodejs-docs 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.