Command Injection Affecting xopen package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.25% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-XOPEN-1050981
- published 26 Jan 2021
- disclosed 26 Jan 2021
- credit JHU System Security Lab
Introduced: 26 Jan 2021
CVE-2020-28447 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for xopen.
Overview
xopen is a package that provides a dead-simple Promise API for opening files from Node on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The injection point is located in line 14 in index.js in the exported function xopen(filepath)
##PoC:
``` var root = require("xopen"); var attack_code = "& touch JHU"; root(attack_code);
CVSS Scores
version 3.1