guymograbi/kill-by-port · Security
Arbitrary code execution in kill-by-port
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mm4f-47ch-f7hx
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-23363
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 6.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Description
This affects the package kill-by-port before 0.0.2. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the killByPort 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.
CWEs
- CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23363 ↗
- https://github.com/GuyMograbi/kill-by-port/commit/ea5b1f377e196a4492e05ff070eba8b30b7372c4 ↗
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-KILLBYPORT-1078531 ↗
- https://github.com/GuyMograbi/kill-by-port/blob/16dcbe264b6b4a5ecf409661b42836dd286fd43f/index.js#23L8 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mm4f-47ch-f7hx ↗