Vulnerability: Information Disclosure via Sync-Exec's Temporary Buffer

CVE-2017-16024 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

The sync-exec module is used to simulate child_process.execSync in node versions <0.11.9. Sync-exec uses tmp directories as a buffer before returning values. Other users on the server have read access to the tmp directory, possibly allowing an attacker on the server to obtain confidential information from the buffer/tmp file, while it exists.

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