Command Injection Affecting curling package, versions <1.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
35.85% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-CURLING-546484
  • published5 Feb 2020
  • disclosed5 Feb 2020
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 5 Feb 2020

CVE-2019-10789  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
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How to fix?

Upgrade curling to version 1.1.0 or higher.

Overview

curling is a node wrapper for curl with a very simple api.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the run(command,cb) function. The command argument can be controlled by users without any sanitization.

PoC by JHU System Security Lab

var root = require("curling");
root.run("& touch JHU",function(){});

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