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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXA2bXItcHhnNC02OGh4
Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower
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
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hxJSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXA2bXItcHhnNC02OGh4
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 5 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago
CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Percentage: 0.00312
EPSS Percentile: 0.70503
Identifiers: GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hx, CVE-2019-5484
References:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5484
- https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3
- https://hackerone.com/reports/473811
- https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction
- https://github.com/nodejs/security-wg/blob/master/vuln/npm/487.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/776
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hx
Blast Radius: 39.2
Affected Packages
npm:bower
Dependent packages: 4,109Dependent repositories: 167,938
Downloads: 1,288,926 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 1.8.8
Fixed in: 1.8.8
All affected versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.6.6, 0.6.7, 0.6.8, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5, 0.8.6, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.10.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.8, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9, 1.3.10, 1.3.11, 1.3.12, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.8.0, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.6, 1.8.7
All unaffected versions: 1.8.8, 1.8.9, 1.8.10, 1.8.11, 1.8.12, 1.8.13, 1.8.14