High
Security advisory
Yarn before 1.17.3 is vulnerable to Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data due to HTTP URLs in lockfile causing unencrypted authentication data to be sent over the network.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-5448
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Yarn before 1.17.3 is vulnerable to Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data due to HTTP URLs in lockfile causing unencrypted authentication data to be sent over the network.
osv:CVE-2019-5448
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5448",
"method": "structured",
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"summary": "Yarn before 1.17.3 is vulnerable to Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data due to HTTP URLs in lockfile causing unencrypted authentication data to be sent over the network.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-5448",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
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"GHSA-wqfc-cr59-h64p"
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"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
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{
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"source": "CPE_RANGE"
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"v1.4.0",
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"v1.3.1",
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"v1.2.1",
"v1.2.0",
"v1.1.0",
"v1.0.2",
"v1.0.1",
"v1.0.0",
"v0.28.0",
"v0.27.0",
"v0.26.0",
"v0.25.0",
"v0.23.0",
"v0.22.0",
"v0.21.0",
"v0.21.0-pre",
"v0.20.0",
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"v0.18.0",
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:38.270145808Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2019/07/12/recommended-security-update/",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/640904",
"https://github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Yarn-vuln.md"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434398,
"published_at": "2019-07-30T21:15:11.523+00:00"
}