Command Injection Affecting google-it package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.94% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GOOGLEIT-2859196
  • published 6 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 3 Jun 2022
  • credit Adar Zandberg

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for google-it.

Overview

google-it is an A CLI and Node.js library to help retrieve, display, and store Google search results

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. When using the 'Open in browser' option, it will unsafely conver the result's link retrieved from google to a shell command.

PoC:

https://www.website.com/?a=`touch${IFS}HACKED`

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.1 high