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Fencer Vulns
high 7.0

CVE-2026-0775 json

npm cli Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

published 2026-01-23 9 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-3966-f6p6-2qr9 , EUVD-2026-4479

cvss
7.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

npm cli Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of npm cli. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the handling of modules. The application loads modules from an unsecured location. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of a target user. Was ZDI-CAN-25430.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-0775 updated cvss 7.0

npmcli: npm cli Incorrect Permission Assignment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

  • Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-pccs Red Hat Cryostat 4 io.cryostat-cryostat Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-curator5-rhel9 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 Red Hat Network Observability Operator network-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-rhel9, network-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-compat-rhel9
    +28 more products
    Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-remediation-console-rhel9, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-operator-bundle, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed openshift-lightspeed/lightspeed-to-dataverse-exporter-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-console-plugin-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-transform-jsonata-rhel9 Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp20/system, 3scale-amp21/system, 3scale-amp22/system, 3scale-amp24/system, 3scale-amp25/system, 3scale-amp26/system, +3 more Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel9, rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 org.jolokia-jolokia-parent Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/mcp-server-rhel9 Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 io.hawt-project Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 rhcl-1/rhcl-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 npm, pcs, nodejs, pcs-snmp, nodejs-libs, ubi8/php-74, +40 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 npm, pcs, nodejs, pcs-snmp, nodejs-libs, ubi9/php-80, +37 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 nodejs22, nodejs24, ubi10/php-83, rhel10/php-83, ubi10/ruby-33, rhel10/ruby-33, +15 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9 Red Hat Fuse 7 git, node-gyp, ci-detect, move-file, run-script, promise-spawn, +1 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 org.jboss.hal-hal-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel8, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ta-lmes-job-rhel9, rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-runtime-generic-rhel9, rhoai/odh-training-rocm62-torch24-py311-rhel9, +12 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console-rhel9, openshift4/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9, openshift4/ose-networking-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, odf4/odf-console-rhel9, odf4/ocs-client-console-rhel9, odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/udi-rhel9, devspaces/code-rhel9, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/code-sshd-rhel9, devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, devspaces/jetbrains-ide-rhel9, +2 more Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel9 Red Hat Satellite 6 satellite/iop-remediations-rhel9 Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 fs, move-file Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer rhtas/rekor-search-ui-rhel9, rhtas/rhtas-console-ui-rhel9, rhtas/segment-reporting-rhel9, rhtas/model-transparency-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADP 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • npm cli
  • Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers
  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
  • Red Hat Network Observability Operator
  • Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator
  • Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless
  • Red Hat Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat Connectivity Link 1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Fuse 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.