high7.5
CVE-2019-13173
fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Fstream Project | Fstream | before 1.0.12 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00052.html
- https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4123-1/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00052.html
- https://github.com/npm/fstream/commit/6a77d2fa6e1462693cf8e46f930da96ec1b0bb22
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4123-1/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/886