CVE-2020-8131

Arbitrary filesystem write vulnerability in Yarn before 1.22.0 allows attackers to write to any path on the filesystem and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution by forcing the user to install a malicious package.

CVE-2019-10773

In Yarn before 1.21.1, the package install functionality can be abused to generate arbitrary symlinks on the host filesystem by using specially crafted "bin" keys. Existing files could be overwritten depending on the current user permission set.

CVE-2021-4435

An untrusted search path vulnerability was found in Yarn. When a victim runs certain Yarn commands in a directory with attacker-controlled content, malicious commands could be executed in unexpected ways.

CVE-2025-8262

A vulnerability was found in yarnpkg Yarn up to 1.22.22. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function explodeHostedGitFragment of the file src/resolvers/exotics/hosted-git-resolver.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to launch t...