GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/11/GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q/GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-38h8-x697-gh8q

Aliases

CVE-2017-16024

Published

2018-11-09T17:45:30Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:59:00.317387Z

Severity

6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Tmp files readable by other users in sync-exec

Details

Affected versions of sync-exec use files located in /tmp/ to buffer command results before returning values. As /tmp/ is almost always set with world readable permissions, this may allow low privilege users on the system to read the results of commands run via sync-exec under a higher privilege user.

Recommendation

There is currently no direct patch for sync-exec, as the child_process.execSync function provided in Node.js v0.12.0 and later provides the same functionality natively.

The best mitigation currently is to update to Node.js v0.12.0 or later, and migrate all uses of sync-exec to child_process.execSync().

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T20:54:36Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-377"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

npm / sync-exec

Package

Name: sync-exec; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/sync-exec

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Last affected

0.6.2