How npm is affected by the recently disclosed git vulnerability
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Overview
The npm blog has been discontinued. Updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog. npm cli users should make sure that they have git version 2.17.1 or later installed to protect against a recent code execution vulnerability involving git submodules.
Impact
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Trigger
a flaw in how git submodules are handled
Detection
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Resolution
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Root Cause
The npm cli supports git dependencies; to enable this it delegates the act of cloning these dependencies to the git command. Because of this delegation, if the system has a vulnerable version of git installed the npm cli, it could be tricked into installing a git dependency of a malicious repo that could execute code on the user's system.