CVE-2013-4116

EPSS 0.10%

Local Privilege Escalation in npm

Published: 9/1/2020Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

lib/npm.js in Node Packaged Modules (npm) before 1.3.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names that are created when unpacking archives.

Affected packages (2)

References (12)