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TOCTOU Race Condition in Yarn

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 9, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 8, 2023

Package

npm yarn (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.19.0

Patched versions

1.19.0

Description

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. This issue is fixed in 1.19.0.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 15, 2020
Reviewed Apr 8, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 9, 2022
Last updated Sep 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.327%
(71st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-15608

GHSA ID

GHSA-hjxc-462x-x77j

Source code

No known source code
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