CVE-2017-5941

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5941
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-09 19:59:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-22 21:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the node-serialize package 0.0.4 for Node.js. Untrusted data passed into the unserialize() function can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution by passing a JavaScript Object with an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-502

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Node-serialize Project Node-serialize All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Node.JS Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Exploiting Node.js deserialization bug for Remote Code Execution | OpSecX MISC opsecx.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Node Security Platform | Advisory MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
Node-serialize Package For Node.js 'unserialize()' Function Remote Code Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Node.JS Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982078 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for node-serialize (GHSA-q4v7-4rhw-9hqm)

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