Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting roar-pidusage package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ROARPIDUSAGE-1078528
- published 18 Apr 2021
- disclosed 23 Feb 2021
- credit OmniTaint
Introduced: 23 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-23380 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for roar-pidusage.
Overview
roar-pidusage is a Cross-platform process cpu % and memory usage of a PID — Edit
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If attacker-controlled user input is given to the stat function of this package on certain operating systems, 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 roar_pidusage = require('roar-pidusage');
roar_pidusage.stat('$(touch success)', function(){});
(A file called success will be created as a result of the execution of touch success.)
Note
This affects operating systems associated with ps in the pusage {object}.