{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2015-03-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "nodejs-tar: insecure processing of symbolic links during package processing",
    "id" : "1209501",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209501"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-59",
  "details" : [ "The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.", "A flaw was found in the way nodejs-tar, a Node.js module for reading and writing of tar archives, handled symbolic links when processing NPM packages. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to rewrite arbitrary files on the system." ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "nodejs010-nodejs-tar",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8860\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860\nhttps://nodesecurity.io/advisories/57" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-8860",
  "csaw" : false
}