Improper Privilege Management Affecting nodejs8 package, versions <8.17.0-3.25.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-NODEJS8-2719018
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Jan 2020

Introduced: 8 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-16777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 nodejs8 to version 8.17.0-3.25.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs8 package and not the nodejs8 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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