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Security Bulletin: Current Releases of IBM® SDK for Node.js™ are affected by CVE-2015-8860

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Summary

Denial of service vulnerability in module tar, used by the npm package management tool

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8860
DESCRIPTION: Node.js tar module could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. Temporary files are created insecurely. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a symbolic link from a temporary file to various files on the system, which could allow the attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with elevated privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112575 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

The tar module included in IBM SDK for Node.js is a bundled dependency of the Node Package Manager (npm). This module instance is not normally exposed to end users of IBM SDK for Node.js.

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK for Node.js v1.1.0.21 and previous releases.
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK for Node.js v1.2.0.10 and previous releases.
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK for Node.js v4.3.2.0 and previous releases.

Remediation/Fixes

The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK for Node.js v1.1.1.0 and subsequent releases.
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK for Node.js v1.2.0.11 and subsequent releases.
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK for Node.js v4.4.0.0 and subsequent releases.

IBM SDK for Node.js can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from here.

IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

May 10 2016: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 August 2018

UID

swg21982853

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