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BREW-NODE-CVE-2018-7408 (CVE-2018-7408)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:18 – Updated: 2026-09-10 00:38 – Source website

Details

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.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed…	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883	REPORT

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  "modified": "2026-09-10T00:38:28Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:18:40Z",
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    "GHSA-ph34-pc88-72gc"
  ]
}

CVE-2018-7408 (GCVE-0-2018-7408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-02-22 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:24

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/74e149da6efe6ed…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883	x_refsource_MISC
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2018-02-22 00:00

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GHSA-PH34-PC88-72GC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:53 – Updated: 2022-06-28 23:53

Summary

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource in NPM

Details

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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        "name": "npm"
      },
      "ranges": [
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-7408"
  ],
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    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-06-28T23:53:12Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2018-02-22T18:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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