CVE-2018-7408

Name	CVE-2018-7408
Description	An issue was discovered in an npm 5.7.0 2018-02-21 pre-release (marked as "next: 5.7.0" and therefore automatically installed by an "npm upgrade -g npm" command, and also announced in the vendor's blog without mention of pre-release status). It 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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
npm (PTS)	jessie	1.4.21+ds-2	fixed
	buster	5.8.0+ds6-4+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye	7.5.2+ds-2	fixed
	bookworm	9.2.0~ds1-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	9.2.0~ds1-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
npm	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- npm <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)