{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hx",
  "modified": "2023-03-01T01:53:44Z",
  "published": "2019-09-17T23:21:34Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-5484"
  ],
  "summary": "Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower",
  "details": "Versions of `bower` prior to 1.8.8 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `bower` does not verify that extracted symbolic links do not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 1.8.8 or later",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "bower"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.8.8"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5484"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/473811"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nodejs/security-wg/blob/master/vuln/npm/487.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/776"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-22"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2019-09-17T23:21:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2019-09-13T18:15:00Z"
  }
}