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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting growl package, versions <1.10.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:growl:20160721
  • published 1 May 2017
  • disclosed 21 Jul 2016
  • credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits
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Introduced: 21 Jul 2016

CVE-2017-16042 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade growl to version 1.10.0 or higher.

Overview

growl is a package adding Growl support for Nodejs.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection due to unsafe use of the eval() function. Node.js provides the eval() function by default, and is used to translate strings into Javascript code. An attacker can craft a malicious payload to inject arbitrary commands.

CVSS Scores

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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