Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting portprocesses package, versions <1.0.5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.51% (74th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-PORTPROCESSES-1078536
- published 31 Mar 2021
- disclosed 23 Feb 2021
- credit OmniTaint
Introduced: 23 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-23348 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade portprocesses
to version 1.0.5 or higher.
Overview
portprocesses is a This tool letes you list and kill processes on a specified port.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the killProcess
function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
This is due to use of the child_process
exec
function without input sanitization.
PoC (provided by reporter):
var portprocesses = require('portprocesses');
portprocesses.killProcess('$(touch success)');