Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting kill-process-by-name package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KILLPROCESSBYNAME-1078534
  • published15 Mar 2021
  • disclosed23 Feb 2021
  • creditOmniTaint

Introduced: 23 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-23356  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for kill-process-by-name.

Overview

kill-process-by-name is a Kills all processes by a certain program

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization in the index.js file.

PoC (provided by reporter):

var kill_process_by_name = require('kill-process-by-name');

kill_process_by_name('$(touch success)');

CVSS Scores

version 3.1