UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13173

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13173

    Published: 2 Jul 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-13173

    Summary:

    Details: fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13173, https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886, https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4123-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-13173, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4863-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-fstream

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.1.24-1ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    0.1.22-1
    0.1.24-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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