Command Injection Affecting global-modules-path package, versions <3.0.0
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.68% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GLOBALMODULESPATH-3167973
- published 12 Jan 2023
- disclosed 13 Dec 2022
- credit Johns Hopkins
Introduced: 13 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-21191 Open this link in a new tabHow 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")
References
CVSS Scores
version 3.1