Command Injection Affecting cycle-import-check package, versions <1.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-CYCLEIMPORTCHECK-3157955
  • published 13 Dec 2022
  • disclosed 6 Dec 2022
  • credit Mingqing Kang

How to fix?

Upgrade cycle-import-check to version 1.3.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the writeFileToTmpDirAndOpenIt function due to improper user-input sanitization.

PoC

var root = require("cycle-import-check")
root.writeFileToTmpDirAndOpenIt("& touch JHU ", "aaa")

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.4 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical