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ubuntu-cve-2016-10538

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2018-05-31 20:29

Modified

2025-10-24 04:46

Summary

Details

The package node-cli before 1.0.0 insecurely uses the lock_file and log_file. Both of these are temporary, but it allows the starting user to overwrite any file they have access to.

Severity

3.5 (Low)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10538	REPORT
	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug…	REPORT
	https://github.com/node-js-libs/cli/issues/81	REPORT
	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/95	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10538	REPORT

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  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:46:00Z",
  "published": "2018-05-31T20:29:00Z",
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CVE-2016-10538 (GCVE-0-2016-10538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:36

Summary

The package `node-cli` before 1.0.0 insecurely uses the lock_file and log_file. Both of these are temporary, but it allows the starting user to overwrite any file they have access to.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-22 - Path Traversal (CWE-22)

Assigner

hackerone

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/node-js-libs/cli/issues/81	x_refsource_MISC
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/95	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	cli node module	Affected: <1.0.0

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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Sightings

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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ubuntu-cve-2016-10538

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-10538 (GCVE-0-2016-10538)

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