connection-tester@0.0.4 vulnerabilities

test if the connection can be established with the given host and port

Direct Vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in the connection-tester package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Vulnerability Vulnerable Version
  • C
Command Injection

connection-tester is a module that tests to check if the connection can be established or host/port reachable for a given host and port. Useful for testing all the connection in your node application at server startup.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The injection point is located in line 15 in index.js.

The following PoC demonstrates the vulnerability:

PoC

var a = require("connection-tester");
a.test("& touch 111","& touch 222",123)

How to fix Command Injection?

Upgrade connection-tester to version 0.2.1 or higher.

<0.2.1