GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

HIGH Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2022-06-28 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-7408
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
npm
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-732
Reviewed
2022-06-28

Affected packages

• npm npm: < 5.7.1 → fixed in 5.7.1

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-7408 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References