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CVE-2019-5484

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-5484 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting Bower versions prior to 1.8.8, allowing attackers to write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations during the 'install' command when processing a malicious package. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a high impact on integrity with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bower:bower:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: bowerFixed in: 1.8.8

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-p6mr-pxg4-68hxhigh

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in bower

Sep 17, 2019

References

github.com / bower/bower/commit/45c6bfa86f6e57731b153baca9e0b41a1cc699e3
Patch
hackerone.com / reports/473811
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
snyk.io / blog/severe-security-vulnerability-in-bowers-zip-archive-extraction
ExploitThird Party Advisory