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Systeminformation has a Command Injection via unsanitized interface parameter in wifi.js retry path

GHSA ID
GHSA-9c88-49p5-5ggf
CVE ID
CVE-2026-26280
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
8.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
8.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Summary

A command injection vulnerability in the wifiNetworks() function allows an attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands via an unsanitized network interface parameter in the retry code path.

Details

In lib/wifi.js, the wifiNetworks() function sanitizes the iface parameter on the initial call (line 437). However, when the initial scan returns empty results, a setTimeout retry (lines 440-441) calls getWifiNetworkListIw(iface) with the original unsanitized iface value, which is passed directly to execSync('iwlist ${iface} scan').

PoC

  1. Install [email protected]
  2. Call si.wifiNetworks('eth0; id')
  3. The first call sanitizes input, but if results are empty, the retry executes: iwlist eth0; id scan

Impact

Remote Code Execution (RCE). Any application passing user-controlled input to si.wifiNetworks() is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the Node.js process.

CWEs

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