Description
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.
Published: 2019-12-13
Score: 7.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-0774 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr npm Vulnerable to Global node_modules Binary Overwrite
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Npmjs Npm
Opensuse Leap
Oracle Graalvm
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Eus Rhel E4s Rhel Software Collections
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:24:47.252Z

Reserved: 2019-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-16777

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-13T01:15:11.007

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:31:10.213

Link: CVE-2019-16777

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-12-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-16777 - Bugzilla

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