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CVE-2019-13173

Published: Jul 2, 2019Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-59
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
2.8%
Top 15.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected Products

n/an/a
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
SUSE Enterprise StorageNovell Inc.
On-prem
Databases / data-warehouse-analytics
SUSE OpenStack CloudNovell Inc.
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web ScriptingNovell Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
novell inc.commercialUSOperating Systems
and 6 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886
npmjs.com
https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22
github.com
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org
and 11 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Jul 2, 2019
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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