Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting kill-process-by-name package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.46% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-KILLPROCESSBYNAME-1078534
- published 15 Mar 2021
- disclosed 23 Feb 2021
- credit OmniTaint
Introduced: 23 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-23356 Open this link in a new tabHow 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