Shell Command Injection Affecting traceroute package, versions <=1.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
10.07% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:traceroute:20160311
  • published23 Jan 2018
  • disclosed9 Nov 2017
  • creditDor Dali

Introduced: 9 Nov 2017

CVE-2018-21268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There currently is no fixed version for traceroute. A fix is on the master branch but was not published to npm.

Overview

traceroute is an npm package used for listing references in a remote git repository.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to the insecure use of exec. An attacker can add a newline %0a after the host addr, and inject malicious shell commands to disrupt server operation or obtain sensitive information.

PoC by Dor Dali

traceroute = require('traceroute');

host = '127.0.0.1\ntouch /tmp/malicious';

traceroute.trace(host, function (err,hops) { // the file /tmp/malicious was created console.log(hops); });

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