CVE-2021-4435 (GCVE-0-2021-4435)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-04 19:16
Modified
2025-06-17 14:29
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Summary
An untrusted search path vulnerability was found in Yarn. When a victim runs certain Yarn commands in a directory with attacker-controlled content, malicious commands could be executed in unexpected ways.
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Impacted products
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