{"id":"CVE-2017-16024","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16024","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:56.867Z","title":"Other users on the server have read access to the tmp directory, possibly allowing an attacker on the server to obtain confidential information from the buffer/tmp file, while it exists.","description":"The sync-exec module is used to simulate child_process.execSync in node versions <0.11.9. Sync-exec uses tmp directories as a buffer before returning values. Other users on the server have read access to the tmp directory, possibly allowing an attacker on the server to obtain confidential information from the buffer/tmp file, while it exists.","published":"2018-06-04T19:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:08:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-377","CWE-200"],"affected":["sync-exec project/sync-exec","nodejs/node.js"],"epss":{"score":0.02518,"percentile":0.84746,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/377.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/gvarsanyi/sync-exec/issues/17","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/310","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Insecure_Temporary_File","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/377.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/gvarsanyi/sync-exec/issues/17","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/310","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Insecure_Temporary_File","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16024","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}