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GHSA-HJXC-462X-X77J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-09 22:49 – Updated: 2023-09-08 23:56

Summary

TOCTOU Race Condition in Yarn

Details

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. This issue is fixed in 1.19.0.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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}

CVE-2019-15608 (GCVE-0-2019-15608)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-15 17:08 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:49

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-840 - Business Logic Errors (CWE-840)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

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

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	yarn	Affected: Fixed in 1.19.0

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