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High · 7.8 CVE-2018-7408 EUVD-2022-4767GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

Published Feb 22, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by 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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm npm < 5.7.1 5.7.1 GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc

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