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CVE-2019-15608

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-15608 is a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in Yarn versions prior to 1.19.0, affecting the package integrity validation process. The hash is computed before caching a package but not re-verified upon retrieval, enabling a cache pollution attack. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a network-based attack with high attack complexity and a high impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.19.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yarnpkg:yarn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: yarnFixed in: 1.19.0

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-hjxc-462x-x77jmedium

TOCTOU Race Condition in Yarn

Feb 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-15608Moderate

yarn: TOCTOU vulnerability leads to cache pollution

Feb 26, 2020

References

github.com / yarnpkg/yarn/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
github.com / yarnpkg/yarn/commit/0474b8c66a8ea298f5e4dedc67b2de464297ad1c
hackerone.com / reports/703138
ExploitMitigationThird Party Advisory