cve-2021-43616
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-13 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 04:03
Severity ?
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The npm ci command in npm 7.x and 8.x through 8.1.3 proceeds with an installation even if dependency information in package-lock.json differs from package.json. This behavior is inconsistent with the documentation, and makes it easier for attackers to install malware that was supposed to have been blocked by an exact version match requirement in package-lock.json. NOTE: The npm team believes this is not a vulnerability. It would require someone to socially engineer package.json which has different dependencies than package-lock.json. That user would have to have file system or write access to change dependencies. The npm team states preventing malicious actors from socially engineering or gaining file system access is outside the scope of the npm CLI.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-ciProduct, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-ci
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/icatalina/CVE-2021-43616Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/npm/cli/commit/457e0ae61bbc55846f5af44afa4066921923490fPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701#issuecomment-972900511
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701#issuecomment-979054224
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NXNVFKOF5ZYH5NIRWHKN6O6UBCHDV6FE/
cve@mitre.orghttps://medium.com/cider-sec/this-time-we-were-lucky-85c0dcac94a0Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211210-0002/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-ciProduct, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-ci
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/icatalina/CVE-2021-43616Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/457e0ae61bbc55846f5af44afa4066921923490fPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701#issuecomment-972900511
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2701#issuecomment-979054224
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NXNVFKOF5ZYH5NIRWHKN6O6UBCHDV6FE/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://medium.com/cider-sec/this-time-we-were-lucky-85c0dcac94a0Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211210-0002/Third Party Advisory
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