Command Injection Affecting node-notifier package, versions <5.4.5 >=8.0.0 <8.0.2 >=9.0.0 <9.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794
  • published 13 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 4 Nov 2020
  • credit Alessio Della Libera (d3lla)

How to fix?

Upgrade node-notifier to version 5.4.5, 8.0.2, 9.0.1 or higher.

Overview

node-notifier is an A Node.js module for sending notifications on native Mac, Windows (post and pre 8) and Linux (or Growl as fallback)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

5.6 medium
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Red Hat

5.6 medium