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

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.41% (74th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GLOBALMODULESPATH-3167973
  • published 12 Jan 2023
  • disclosed 13 Dec 2022
  • credit Johns Hopkins
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Introduced: 13 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-21191 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-78 Open this link 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")