CVE-2021-4435

Published: 4 February 2024

An untrusted search path vulnerability was found in Yarn. When a victim runs certain Yarn commands in a directory with attacker-controlled content, malicious commands could be executed in unexpected ways.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
node-yarnpkg Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needed
	jammy	Needed
	mantic	Not vulnerable (1.22.19+~cs24.27.18-4)
	noble	Needs triage
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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