CVE-2018-7408: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

February 22, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

This vulnerability might allow local users to bypass intended filesystem access restrictions because ownerships of /etc and /usr directories are being changed unexpectedly, related to a correctMkdir issue.

References

blog.npmjs.org/post/171169301000/v571
github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7408

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