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CVE-2019-16777

Published: 13 December 2019

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
npm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needs triage

trusty Needs triage

upstream Needs triage

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Needs triage

impish Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needs triage

mantic Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N