What is GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc?

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc cover?

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2018-7408. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc?

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc?

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc affects 1 product, including: npm/npm:\u003c 5.7.1.

GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gcHighCVSS 7.8

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 13, 2022

Last Modified

January 27, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2018-7408 →

📋 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 products1

npm/npm:< 5.7.1

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7408
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883
https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc