CVE-2019-15608 (GCVE-0-2019-15608)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-15 17:08 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache. It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache pollution attack.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-840 - Business Logic Errors (CWE-840)
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://hackerone.com/reports/703138 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/commit/0474b8c66a… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/CHANG… | x_refsource_MISC |
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