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Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 17, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 1, 2023

Package

npm bower (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.8.8

Patched versions

1.8.8

Description

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

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 13, 2019
Reviewed Sep 17, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2019
Last updated Mar 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-5484

GHSA ID

GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hx

Source code

No known source code
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