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High USN-4123-1 1 CVE

npm/fstream vulnerability

Published Sep 5, 2019 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that npm/fstream incorrectly handled certain crafted
tarballs. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write aritrary files to
the filesystem.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS node-fstream 1.0.10-1ubuntu0.18.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-13173

    Arbitrary File Overwrite in fstream

    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 f…

    fstream node-fstream node-fstream Debian Ubuntu npm

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13173