CVE-2018-7408

Published: Feb 22, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-732

7.8HIGH

NVD MITRE

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAttack Vector

Local

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected Products

npmjs

oss-projectaka tar, arborist, npm

npmLibrary

OSS Libraries / npm

Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения

oss-projectaka fsf

Debian GNU/LinuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

Node.js Foundation

oss-project·USaka nodejs foundation, node foundation

package-ecosystem

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique

Privilege Escalation

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References

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571

blog.npmjs.org

https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0

github.com

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883

github.com

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