CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-5484
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Bower before 1.8.8 has a path traversal vulnerability permitting file write in arbitrary locations via install command, which allows attackers to write arbitrary files when a malicious package is extracted.
Affected configurations
• bower bower (< 1.8.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3 Patch
- https://hackerone.com/reports/473811 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3 Patch
- https://hackerone.com/reports/473811 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction Exploit, Third Party Advisory