Description
The sync-exec module is used to simulate child_process.execSync in node versions <0.11.9. Sync-exec uses tmp directories as a buffer before returning values. Other users on the server have read access to the tmp directory, possibly allowing an attacker on the server to obtain confidential information from the buffer/tmp file, while it exists.
Remediation
References
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/377.html
https://github.com/gvarsanyi/sync-exec/issues/17
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/310
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Insecure_Temporary_File
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