Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting growl package, versions <1.10.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:growl:20160721
  • published1 May 2017
  • disclosed21 Jul 2016
  • creditCristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits

Introduced: 21 Jul 2016

CVE-2017-16042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens 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.

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