Improper Privilege Management Affecting shelljs package, versions <0.8.5
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- published 12 Jan 2022
- disclosed 11 Jan 2022
- credit haxatron
Introduced: 11 Jan 2022
CVE-2022-0144 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade shelljs to version 0.8.5 or higher.
Overview
shelljs is a wrapper for the Unix shell commands for Node.js.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management. When ShellJS is used to create shell scripts which may be running as root, users with low-level privileges on the system can leak sensitive information such as passwords (depending on implementation) from the standard output of the privileged process OR shutdown privileged ShellJS processes via the exec function when triggering EACCESS errors.
Note: Thi only impacts the synchronous version of shell.exec().