ghsa-p6mr-pxg4-68hx
Vulnerability from github
Published
2019-09-17 23:21
Modified
2023-03-01 01:53
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower
Details

Versions of bower prior to 1.8.8 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because bower does not verify that extracted symbolic links do not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.8.8 or later

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "bower"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.8.8"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-5484"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2019-09-17T23:21:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2019-09-13T18:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Versions of `bower` prior to 1.8.8 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `bower` does not verify that extracted symbolic links do not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 1.8.8 or later",
  "id": "GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hx",
  "modified": "2023-03-01T01:53:44Z",
  "published": "2019-09-17T23:21:34Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5484"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/473811"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nodejs/security-wg/blob/master/vuln/npm/487.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/776"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower"
}


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