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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting growl Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.10.0

0.0
critical

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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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.