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SCA: security update for npm (GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422992

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Versions of the npm CLI prior to 6.13.4 are vulnerable to an Arbitrary File Overwrite. It fails to prevent
 existing globally-installed binaries to be overwritten by other package installations. For example, if a
 package was installed globally and created a serve binary, any subsequent installs of packages that also
 create a serve binary would overwrite the previous serve binary. This behavior is still allowed in local
 installations and also through install scripts. This vulnerability bypasses a user using the --ignore-
 scripts install option. (CVE-2019-16777)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4328-8hgf-7wjr

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422992

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16777

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16777