CVE-2020-7781

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7781
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-16 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects the package connection-tester before 0.2.1. The injection point is located in line 15 in index.js. The following PoC demonstrates the vulnerability:

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Connection-tester Project Connection-tester All All All All
Application Connection-tester Project Connection-tester All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Command Injection in connection-tester | Snyk CONFIRM snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
validate host and port values by skoranga · Pull Request #10 · skoranga/node-connection-tester · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: JHU System Security Lab

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983229 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for connection-tester (GHSA-w5mp-8p8w-mhh8)

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