GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q Tmp files readable by other users in sync-exec

MEDIUM Published 2018-11-09 Modified 2023-09-07 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16024
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
sync-exec
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-377
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm sync-exec: <= 0.6.2 (no fix yet)

Description

Affected versions of `sync-exec` use files located in `/tmp/` to buffer command results before returning values. As `/tmp/` is almost always set with world readable permissions, this may allow low privilege users on the system to read the results of commands run via `sync-exec` under a higher privilege user. Recommendation There is currently no direct patch for `sync-exec`, as the `child_process.execSync` function provided in Node.js v0.12.0 and later provides the same functionality natively. The best mitigation currently is to update to Node.js v0.12.0 or later, and migrate all uses of `sync-exec` to `child_process.execSync()`.

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16024 The sync-exec module is used to simulate child_process.execSync in node versions <0.11.9. vulnerability

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