Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting ps-kill package, versions *


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.5% (76th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-PSKILL-1078529
  • published 15 Mar 2021
  • disclosed 23 Feb 2021
  • credit OmniTaint

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ps-kill.

Overview

ps-kill is a Kill processes with ease

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the kill 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 in the index.js file.

PoC (provided by reporter):

var ps_kill = require('ps-kill');

ps_kill.kill('$(touch success)',function(){});