Potential Command Injection Affecting libnotify package, versions <1.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:libnotify:20130515
  • published 15 May 2013
  • disclosed 15 May 2013
  • credit Adam Baldwin

Overview

Untrusted input passed in the call to libnotify.notify could result in execution of shell commands. Callers may be unaware of this.

Source: Node Security Project

Details

Example:

var libnotify = require('libnotify')
libnotify.notify('UNTRUSTED INPUT', { title: \"\" }, function () {
    console.log(arguments);
})

References

Special thanks to Neal Poole for submitting the pull request to fix this issue.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical