vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-13173): npm/fstream vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 2, 2019
Added
Sep 6, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-node-fstream
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