cve/2019/CVE-2019-5484.md

CVE-2019-5484

Description

Bower before 1.8.8 has a path traversal vulnerability permitting file write in arbitrary locations via install command, which allows attackers to write arbitrary files when a malicious package is extracted.

POC

Reference

• https://hackerone.com/reports/473811
• https://hackerone.com/reports/492512
• https://snyk.io/blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction

Github

• https://github.com/ESAPI/owasp-esapi-js
• https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2019-5484