Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting systeminformation package, versions <5.6.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.82% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SYSTEMINFORMATION-1243748
  • published 7 Apr 2021
  • disclosed 6 Apr 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade systeminformation to version 5.6.4 or higher.

Overview

systeminformation is a simple system and OS information library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. Service parameters passed to si.inetLatency(), si.inetChecksite(), si.services(), and si.processLoad() are not sanitized properly.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical