Link Following Affecting npm10 package, versions <10.16.0-1.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-NPM10-2739473
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2019

Introduced: 7 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-13173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 npm10 to version 10.16.0-1.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm10 package and not the npm10 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.