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Growl before 1.10.0 vulnerable to Command Injection

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 8, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 11, 2023

Package

npm growl (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.10.0

Patched versions

1.10.0

Description

Affected versions of growl do not properly sanitize input prior to passing it into a shell command, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.10.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 8, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 11, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16042

GHSA ID

GHSA-qh2h-chj9-jffq

Source code

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