Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') Affecting nodejs package, versions [,20.16.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-NODEJS-10669666
  • published9 Jul 2025
  • disclosed9 Jul 2024
  • creditTianst

Introduced: 9 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-36138  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nodejs to version 20.16.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'). This is due to a bypass of CVE-2024-27980.

A malicious command line argument can inject arbitrary commands and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.

Note: This vulnerability affects only users of child_process.spawn and child_process.spawnSync on Windows in all active release lines.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1