CVE-2020-8131

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8131
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8131.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-8131
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2020-02-24T15:15:12.020Z
Modified
2025-11-14T11:08:44.482354Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Arbitrary filesystem write vulnerability in Yarn before 1.22.0 allows attackers to write to any path on the filesystem and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution by forcing the user to install a malicious package.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/yarnpkg/yarn

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.4.0
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.4.9
0.5.0
0.6.0
0.6.1

Other

pre-release

v0.*

v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.13.0
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.15.1
v0.17.0
v0.17.0-0
v0.18.0
v0.18.0-0
v0.19.0
v0.19.0-0
v0.20.0
v0.20.0-0
v0.21.0
v0.21.0-pre
v0.22.0
v0.23.0
v0.25.0
v0.26.0
v0.27.0
v0.28.0
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.8.0
v0.9.0

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.1.0
v1.10.0
v1.11.0
v1.12.0
v1.13.0
v1.14.0
v1.15.0
v1.16.0
v1.17.0
v1.18.0
v1.19.0
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.21.0
v1.21.1
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.5.0
v1.6.0
v1.7.0
v1.8.0
v1.9.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-8131.json"