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Overview
growl is a package adding Growl support for Nodejs.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection due to unsafe use of the eval()
function. Node.js provides the eval()
function by default, and is used to translate strings into Javascript code. An attacker can craft a malicious payload to inject arbitrary commands.
Remediation
Upgrade growl
to version 1.10.0 or higher.
References
CVSS Score
9.8
high severity
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Attack VectorNetwork
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Attack ComplexityLow
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Privileges RequiredNone
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User InteractionNone
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ScopeUnchanged
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ConfidentialityHigh
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IntegrityHigh
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AvailabilityHigh
- Credit
- Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits
- CVE
- CVE-2017-16042
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Snyk ID
- npm:growl:20160721
- Disclosed
- 21 Jul, 2016
- Published
- 01 May, 2017