CVE-2018-7408

Name
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0
Vendor Advisory http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:npmjs:npm:5.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* npm == None == 5.7.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status