GHSA-HFQ9-RFPV-J8R8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-09-01 16:49 – Updated: 2021-09-23 21:42
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Summary
Command Injection in pidusage
Details

Affected versions of pidusage pass unsanitized input to child_process.exec(), resulting in arbitrary code execution in the ps method.

This package is vulnerable to this PoC on Darwin, SunOS, FreeBSD, and AIX.

Windows and Linux are not vulnerable.

Proof of Concept

var pid = require('pidusage');
pid.stat('1 && /usr/local/bin/python');

Recommendation

Update to version 1.1.5 or later.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 1.1.4"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "pidusage"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.1.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-16034"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-77"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-08-31T18:20:25Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
  "details": "Affected versions of `pidusage` pass unsanitized input to `child_process.exec()`, resulting in arbitrary code execution in the `ps` method.\n \nThis package is vulnerable to this PoC on Darwin, SunOS, FreeBSD, and AIX.\n\nWindows and Linux are not vulnerable. \n\n## Proof of Concept\n```\nvar pid = require(\u0027pidusage\u0027);\npid.stat(\u00271 \u0026\u0026 /usr/local/bin/python\u0027);\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 1.1.5 or later.",
  "id": "GHSA-hfq9-rfpv-j8r8",
  "modified": "2021-09-23T21:42:30Z",
  "published": "2020-09-01T16:49:19Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16034"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/356"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Command Injection in pidusage"
}


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