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Path Traversal in decompress

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 3, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 18, 2023

Package

npm decompress (npm)

Affected versions

< 4.2.1

Patched versions

4.2.1

Description

Versions of decompress prior to 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write. The package fails to prevent extraction of files with relative paths, allowing attackers to write to any folder in the system by including filenames containing../.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 4.2.1 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 26, 2020
Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 3, 2020
Last updated Apr 18, 2023

Severity

Critical

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
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.619%
(79th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-12265

GHSA ID

GHSA-qgfr-5hqp-vrw9

Source code

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