GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc

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    GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2018-7408

    Summary: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

    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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7408, https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883, https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed89477faa81fef08eee7999ad0, github.com/npm/cli, http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: npm

    Purl: pkg:npm/npm

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.7.1

    Affected versions

    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