Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting node-import package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEIMPORT-571691
- published 15 Jun 2020
- disclosed 15 Jun 2020
- credit JHU System Security Lab
Introduced: 15 Jun 2020
CVE-2020-7678 Open this link in a new tabHow 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)