Bug ID 1173614
Summary VUL-0: CVE-2019-15608: yarn: TOCTOU vulnerability leads to cache pollution
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 42.3
Hardware Other
URL https://smash.suse.de/issue/255125/
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Security
Assignee security-team@suse.de
Reporter atoptsoglou@suse.com
QA Contact security-team@suse.de
Found By Security Response Team
Blocker ---

CVE-2019-15608

The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU
vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache.
It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache
pollution attack.

References:

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1190
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/commit/0474b8c66a8ea298f5e4dedc67b2de464297ad1c
https://hackerone.com/reports/703138

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1851875
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-15608
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-15608.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15608
https://hackerone.com/reports/703138


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