CVE-2018-7408

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    CVE-2018-7408

    Published: 22 Feb 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 5.7.0" and therefore automatically installed by an "npm upgrade -g npm" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog without mention of pre-release status). It might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a "correctMkdir" issue.

    References: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571, https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0, https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- cf317e2181749f71d101718fad30fcce99ae7406
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High