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Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting dns-sync Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.1.3

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

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  • snyk-id

    npm:dns-sync:20141111

  • published

    11 Nov 2014

  • disclosed

    11 Nov 2014

  • credit

    Steve Kemp

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Introduced: 11 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-9682 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

The dns-sync library for node.js allows resolving hostnames in a synchronous fashion. All versions of dns-sync prior to the release 0.1.3 were vulnerable to arbitrary command execution via maliciously formed hostnames.

Details

For example:

var dnsSync = require('dns-sync');
console.log(dnsSync.resolve('$(id > /tmp/foo)'));

This is caused by the hostname being passed through a shell as part of a command execution.

Remediation

Upgrade dns-sync to version 0.1.1 or greater.