Privilege Escalation Affecting deno package, versions >=1.5.0 <1.10.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-DENO-1298032
  • published30 May 2021
  • disclosed30 May 2021
  • creditNayeem Rahman

Introduced: 30 May 2021

CVE-2021-32619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade deno to version 1.10.2 or higher.

Overview

deno is an a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Modules that are dynamically imported using import() or new Worker are able to bypass file system permission checks when importing other modules.

CVSS Scores

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