7.7
HIGH
CVE-2019-16777
npm CLI Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
Description

Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 13, 2019, 1:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 4:31 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.8

Exploitability Score :

1.3
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-16777 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat enterprise_linux
2 Redhat enterprise_linux_eus
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Opensuse leap
1 Npmjs npm
1 Oracle graalvm
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-16777.

URL Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 Third Party Advisory
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 Third Party Advisory
https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html Third Party Advisory

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-16777 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-16777 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602
    Added Reference https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli
    Added Reference https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/
  • Reanalysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 02, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cli_project:cli:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.13.4 OR *cpe:2.3:a:npmjs:npm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.13.4
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html No Types Assigned https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html Third Party Advisory
    Removed CWE NIST CWE-20
    Added CWE NIST CWE-269
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:19.3.0.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 20, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 25, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 25, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 25, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 21, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:0330 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z36UKPO5F3PQ3Q2POMF5LEKXWAH5RUFP/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00027.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 19, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli No Types Assigned https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr No Types Assigned https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-20
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:cli_project:cli:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.13.4
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 13, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option. Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-16777 is associated with the following CWEs:

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.23 }} 0.04%

score

0.61899

percentile

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