Name: CVE-2019-15608: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-15608, CWE-840, CWE-367, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.00463

The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache. It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache pollution attack.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade node-yarnpkg	Jul 30, 2024	Mar 15, 2020
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Mar 15, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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