Command Injection Affecting mversion package, versions <2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.19% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MVERSION-573174
  • published25 Jun 2020
  • disclosed24 Jun 2020
  • creditHabib Ullah

Introduced: 24 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-7688  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade mversion to version 2.0.1 or higher.

Overview

mversion is a cross packaging manager module version handler/bumper.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The issue occurs because tagName user input is formatted inside the exec function is executed without any checks.

PoC:

var mversion = require('mversion');

mversion.update({ version: "major", commitMessage: "testing", tagName: "; touch hbkhan", })

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1