CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2019-16777
Medium (6.5). EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in npm 6.13.4.
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-269, CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- npmjs:npm
- opensuse:leap
- oracle:graalvm
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_eus
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr | npm | npm | <6.13.4 | 6.13.4 |