CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-7408
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
Description
An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 5.7.0" and therefore automatically installed by an "npm upgrade -g npm" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog without mention of pre-release status). It might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a "correctMkdir" issue.
Affected configurations
• npmjs npm 5.7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory