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If an attacker can create a symbolic link at the location of one of these temporary file names, the attacker can arbitrarily write to any file that the user which owns the `npm` process has permission to write to, potentially resulting in local privilege escalation.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 1.3.3 or later.","status":"published","published":"2020-09-01T16:03:34Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:03:49Z","cwes":["CWE-59"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:06.884904Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2013-4116","description":"lib/npm.js in Node Packaged Modules (npm) before 1.3.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names that are created when unpacking archives.","status":"published","published":"2014-04-22T14:23:34.33Z","modified":"2026-06-16T23:56:39.34Z","cvss":[{"version":"2.0","score":3.3,"vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P","level":"low","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-59"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:02:50.049023Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2013-4116","description":"lib/npm.js in Node Packaged Modules (npm) before 1.3.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names that are created when unpacking archives.","status":"published","published":"2014-04-22T14:23:34Z","modified":"2026-04-10T03:42:54.453534Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:43:59.09154Z"},{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4116","description":"lib/npm.js in Node Packaged Modules (npm) before 1.3.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names that are created when unpacking archives.","status":"published","published":"2014-04-22T14:23:34.33Z","modified":"2026-09-01T20:03:16.375025523Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:25.514579Z"},{"id":"GHSA-v3jv-wrf4-5845","title":"Local Privilege Escalation in npm","description":"Affected versions of `npm` use predictable temporary file names during archive unpacking. 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