Command Injection Affecting apiconnect-cli-plugins package, versions >=1.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.74% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-APICONNECTCLIPLUGINS-564427
  • published 5 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 5 Apr 2020
  • credit JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for apiconnect-cli-plugins.

Overview

apiconnect-cli-plugins is a Plugin for IBM API Connect Developer Toolkit.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The argument pluginUri can be controlled by users without any sanitization.

PoC

var root = require("apiconnect-cli-plugins");
var payload = "& touch Song &";
root.pluginLoader.installPlugin(payload,"");

the injection point is located in line 181 of file lib/plugin-loader.js, in the function installPlugin(pluginUri, registryUri).

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical