Command Injection Affecting npm-help package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NPMHELP-1050983
- published 26 Jan 2021
- disclosed 26 Jan 2021
- credit JHU System Security Lab
Introduced: 26 Jan 2021
CVE-2020-28445 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for npm-help.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The injection point is located in line 13 in index.js file in export.latestVersion() function.
PoC:
var root = require("npm-help");
var module = "& touch JHU";
root.latestVersion(module);
CVSS Scores
version 3.1