CVE-2018-7408 | BDVDB-2026-97040 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-02-22Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.