CVE-2015-8860

5

MEDIUMCVSS v2

Published

January 23, 2017

Affected

3 projects

Assigned by

MITRE

Severity scale

010

Description

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

nodejs

Python Package IndexPython bindings and utils for Node.js and io.js

<= 1.8.4NVD

nodejs

NPM

<= 1.8.4NVD

Node.js

NuGet Gallery

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NVD↗GitHub Advisory↗

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.

<= 1.8.4NVD

Security Advisories

CVE-2015-8860

Description

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