Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting printer package, versions <0.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.73% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:printer:20140306
  • published6 Mar 2014
  • disclosed6 Mar 2014
  • creditAdam Baldwin

Introduced: 6 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-3741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version > 0.0.1 which is available on github at https://github.com/tojocky/node-printer

Overview

printer does not sanitize command arguments properly in the printDirect() function. If untrusted client input is passed in, command injection is possible.

Source: Node Security Project

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1