Command Injection Affecting windows-shortcuts package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-WINDOWSSHORTCUTS-584567
  • published 15 Jul 2020
  • disclosed 22 May 2015
  • credit realgam3

Introduced: 22 May 2015

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-78 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for windows-shortcuts.

Overview

windows-shortcuts is a Create, edit, and query Windows shortcuts (.lnk files)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. It is possible to run arbitrary code during shortcut creation.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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