The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache. It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache pollution attack. This issue is fixed in 1.19.0.
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"github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-08T22:21:40Z",
"severity": "MODERATE",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-367"
],
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"nvd_published_at": "2020-03-15T18:15:00Z"
}