Affected: npm cli, Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation, Red Hat Cryostat 4, Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers, Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes, Red Hat Network Observability Operator, Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator, Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and 25 more

npm cli Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of npm cli. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the handling of modules. The application loads modules from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of a target user. Was ZDI-CAN-25430.