Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting kill-port package, versions <1.3.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.43% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-KILLPORT-173974
- published 18 Mar 2019
- disclosed 18 Mar 2019
- credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
Introduced: 18 Mar 2019
CVE-2019-5414 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade kill-port to version 1.3.2 or higher.
Overview
kill-port Kills the process running on given port.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If an attacker can control the port, which in itself is a very sensitive value, they can inject arbitrary OS commands due to the usage of the exec function in a third-party module.