Command Injection Affecting node-prompt-here package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.02% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEPROMPTHERE-560115
  • published 13 Mar 2020
  • disclosed 13 Mar 2020
  • credit JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for node-prompt-here.

Overview

node-prompt-here is a package to open a console window at given absolute directory.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The runCommand() is called by getDevices() function in file linux/manager.js, which is required by the index. process.env.NM_CLI in the file "linux/manager.js" . This function is used to construct the argument of function execSync(), which can be controlled by users without any sanitization.

PoC

process.env.NM_CLI = 'echo vulnerable > create.txt & nmcli';
var root = require("network-manager");
root.getDevices();

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical