Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting growl Open this link in a new tab package, versions <1.10.0
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications-
snyk-id
npm:growl:20160721
-
published
1 May 2017
-
disclosed
21 Jul 2016
-
credit
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits
Introduced: 21 Jul 2016
CVE-2017-16042 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.