Insecure use of Tmp files Affecting sync-exec package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.12% (48th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:sync-exec:20160124
- published 16 Apr 2017
- disclosed 24 Jan 2016
- credit maxnikulin
Introduced: 24 Jan 2016
CVE-2017-16024 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fix version for sync-exec.
Overview
sync-exec is an fs.execSync replacement for node <0.12.
Affected versions of this package use tmp directories in an insecure way. The file to create will allways return true, regardess if the directory already exists and/or belongs to another user. Any user on the server may read the contents of this tmp file and may expose confidential information to an attacker.
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