CVE-2021-23355

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-23355
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-15 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-28 14:11:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects all versions of package ps-kill. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the kill function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization in the index.js file. PoC (provided by reporter): var ps_kill = require('ps-kill'); ps_kill.kill('$(touch success)',function(){});

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ps-kill Project Ps-kill All All All All
Application Ps-kill Project Ps-kill All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Arbitrary Command Injection in ps-kill | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, 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: OmniTaint

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982887 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for ps-kill (GHSA-7qmm-q394-fmch)

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