Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting windows-cpu package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.85% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:windows-cpu:20170417
  • published19 May 2017
  • disclosed19 May 2017
  • creditDaniel Bond

Introduced: 19 May 2017

CVE-2017-1000219  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fix version for windows-cpu.

Overview

windows-cpu is a CPU monitoring utility for windows.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Execution via the findLoad method, which passes a user-inputed string to the shell without validation.

Proof of Concept: This code will open the built-in calculator program.

var win = require('windows-cpu');
wind.findLoad('foo & calc.exe');

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