Command Injection Affecting global-modules-path package, versions <3.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.68% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-GLOBALMODULESPATH-3167973
  • published12 Jan 2023
  • disclosed13 Dec 2022
  • creditJohns Hopkins

Introduced: 13 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-21191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade global-modules-path to version 3.0.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection due to missing input sanitization or other checks and sandboxes being employed to the getPath function.

PoC

var root = require("global-modules-path")
root.getPath("& touch JHU","& touch exploit")

CVSS Scores

version 3.1