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CVE-2019-16775

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Last updated

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16775

Severity

6.5

Medium

CVSS CVSS_V3

Description

Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.3 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Write. It is possible for packages to create symlinks to files outside of thenode_modules folder through the bin field upon installation. A properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would allow a package publisher to create a symlink pointing to arbitrary files on a user's system when the package is installed. This behavior is still possible through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.

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Affected packages


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