GHSA-xf7w-r453-m56cHighCVSS 7.5
Arbitrary File Overwrite in fstream
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Versions of fstream prior to 1.0.12 are 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.
Recommendation
Upgrade to version 1.0.12 or later.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/fstream:< 1.0.12
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13173
- https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4123-1/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00052.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf7w-r453-m56c