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Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting open Open this link in a new tab package, versions <6.0.0

0.0
high

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Confidentiality

    High

  • Integrity

    High

  • Availability

    High

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  • snyk-id

    npm:open:20180512

  • published

    13 May 2018

  • disclosed

    12 May 2018

  • credit

    ChALkeR

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Introduced: 12 May 2018

CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade open to version 6.0.0 or higher.

Overview

open is a cross platform package that opens stuff like URLs, files, executables.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. Urls are not properly escaped before concatenating them into the command that is opened using exec().

Note: Upgrading open to the last version will prevent this vulnerability but is also likely to have unwanted effects since it now has a very different API.

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