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Fixes arbitrary file write on fetch #7831

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Fixes arbitrary file write on fetch #7831

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@arcanis arcanis commented Jan 22, 2020

Summary

In some circumstances it was possible to write files anywhere on the disk when running yarn install. Although it's not that much of an issue considering that most installs are done with postinstall scripts, we don't want that to happen precisely to guarantee some level of safety for people actually using --ignore-scripts.

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Will add tests after the release.

@arcanis arcanis merged commit 0e7133c into master Jan 31, 2020
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jonm01 commented Feb 25, 2020

CVE-2020-8131 was assigned.
hackerone report: 730239

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CVE-2020-8131 was published 2020-02-24, updated 2020-02-27, and is now appearing as a reason-for-failure during a code promotion job in our CI as reported by Anchore.

How does a dependency-package (i.e. one installed with yarn) recover from this state? As a non-yarn user, I am unfamiliar with recovery options. With npm one would simply update npm, but since we aren't using yarn in our build cycle, I'm unsure what the best course of action is.

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arcanis commented Feb 27, 2020

@Gbl-peter I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean. I suggest asking your devops team where they use Yarn, and ask them to upgrade.

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