Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting org.webjars.npm:macaddress package, versions (,0.2.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.1% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-479886
  • published13 May 2018
  • disclosed11 May 2018
  • creditChALkeR

Introduced: 11 May 2018

CVE-2018-13797  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade macaddress to version 0.2.9 or higher.

Overview

macaddress Retrieve MAC addresses in Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. An attacker could inject arbitrary shell commands if the user input can influence the iface argument.

CVSS Scores

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