Published: 22/02/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 409

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue exists 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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An issue was discovered in an npm 570 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 570" 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 ...

CWE-732 https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883 https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0 http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571 https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7408

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