Link Following Affecting nodejs8-docs package, versions <8.15.1-3.17.1
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-SLES151-NODEJS8DOCS-2739819
- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed6 Aug 2019
Introduced: 6 Aug 2019
CVE-2019-13173 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.1 nodejs8-docs to version 8.15.1-3.17.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs8-docs package and not the nodejs8-docs package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13173.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1140290
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00052.html
- https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4123-1/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886