Command Injection Affecting devcert-sanscache package, versions <0.4.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-DEVCERTSANSCACHE-540926
  • published8 Jan 2020
  • disclosed8 Jan 2020
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 8 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-10778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade devcert-sanscache to version 0.4.7 or higher.

Overview

devcert-sanscache is a package that can be used to generate trusted local SSL/TLS certificates for local SSL development.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The variable commonName controlled by user input is used as part of the exec function without any sanitization.

PoC by JHU System Security Lab

var root = require("devcert-sanscache");
var attack_code = "&touch Song&";
root(attack_code);

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