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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting gifsicle package, versions <1.90

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:gifsicle:20170810
  • published 21 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 10 Aug 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-1000421 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade gifsicle to version 1.90 or higher.

Overview

gifsicle is a package that manipulates GIF image files in many different ways.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Use-after-free in the read_gif function may result in potential code execution.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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