CVE-2019-16775

HIGH7.7EPSS 1.1%

Arbitrary File Write in npm

Published: 12/13/2019Modified: 3/13/2026
Also known as:GHSA-m6cx-g6qm-p2cxCGA-2gmq-rjmj-3fqgDEBIAN-CVE-2019-16775

Description

Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.3 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Write. It fails to prevent access to folders outside of the intended node_modules folder through the bin field. A properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would allow a package publisher to create files on a user's system when the package is installed. It is only possible to affect files that the user running `npm install` has access to and it is not possible to over write files that already exist on disk. This behavior is still possible through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 6.13.3 or later.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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