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Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting kill-by-port package, versions <0.0.2

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.51% (77th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-KILLBYPORT-1078531
  • published 30 Mar 2021
  • disclosed 23 Feb 2021
  • credit OmniTaint
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Introduced: 23 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-23363 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab
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How to fix?

Upgrade kill-by-port to version 0.0.2 or higher.

Overview

kill-by-port is a kills process by port

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. 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.

PoC (provided by reporter):

var kill_by_port = require('kill-by-port');


kill_by_port.killByPort('$(touch success)');

A file called success will be created as a result of the execution of touch success.