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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-02-22T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:24:11.901Z

Reserved: 2018-02-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-7408

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-22T18:29:00.253

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:12:05.503

Link: CVE-2018-7408

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