- 7.7HighCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.3 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Write. It is possible for packages to create symlinks to files outside of thenode_modules folder through the bin field upon installation. A properly constructed entry in the package.json bin field would allow a package publisher to create a symlink pointing to arbitrary files on a user's system when the package is installed. This behavior is still possible through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-scripts install option.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References11
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-595ce5e3cc (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHEA-2020:0330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0573 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0579 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0597 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0602 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/npm/cli/security/advisories/GHSA-m6cx-g6qm-p2cx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0798 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m6cx-g6qm-p2cx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-16775)Record last updated .