CVE-2018-13797

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-13797
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-10 12:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe macaddress module before 0.2.9 for Node.js is prone to an arbitrary command injection flaw, due to allowing unsanitized input to an exec (rather than execFile) call.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Node-macaddress Project Node-macaddress All All All All
Application Node-macaddress Project Node-macaddress All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fixes arbitrary command injection by using execFile instead of exec by Logikgate · Pull Request #20 · scravy/node-macaddress · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Critical vulnerability of NPM package macaddress | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Merge pull request #20 from flypapertech/fixCommandInjection · scravy/node-macaddress@358fd59 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Release v0.2.9 · scravy/node-macaddress · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980955 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for macaddress (GHSA-pp57-mqmh-44h7)

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