CVE-2018-21268

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-21268
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-25 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:56:00 UTC
DescriptionThe traceroute (aka node-traceroute) package through 1.0.0 for Node.js allows remote command injection via the host parameter. This occurs because the Child.exec() method, which is considered to be not entirely safe, is used. In particular, an OS command can be placed after a newline character.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Traceroute Project Traceroute All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Overview MISC www.npmjs.com Third Party Advisory
Shell Command Injection Through Traceroute NPM Package | by OP Innovate | Medium medium.com
Page not found – OP Innovate MISC www.op-c.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
OP Innovate on LinkedIn: Shell Command Injection Through Traceroute NPM Package MISC www.linkedin.com Third Party Advisory
Shell Command Injection Through Traceroute NPM Package | by OP Innovate | Medium MISC medium.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Shell Command Injection in traceroute | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
traceroute - npm MISC www.npmjs.com Product, Third Party Advisory
conversion to spawn and stream · jaw187/node-traceroute@b99ee02 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Tags · jaw187/node-traceroute · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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