Medium
Security advisory
The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache. It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache pollution attack.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-15608
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The package integrity validation in yarn < 1.19.0 contains a TOCTOU vulnerability where the hash is computed before writing a package to cache. It's not computed again when reading from the cache. This may lead to a cache pollution attack.
osv:CVE-2019-15608
Complete source record
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