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FreeBSD: VID-2A3588B4-AB12-11EA-A051-001B217B3468 (CVE-2019-16777): NPM -- Multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-2A3588B4-AB12-11EA-A051-001B217B3468 (CVE-2019-16777): NPM -- Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2019
Created
06/12/2020
Added
06/11/2020
Modified
06/11/2020

Description

Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-npm

References

  • CVE-2019-16777

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