CVE-2017-18869: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

June 15, 2020 (updated June 17, 2020)

A TOCTOU issue in the chownr package for Node.js could allow a local attacker to trick it into descending into unintended directories via symlink attacks.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18869

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