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Potential Command Injection Affecting libnotify package, versions <1.0.4

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.32% (71st percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID npm:libnotify:20130515
  • published 15 May 2013
  • disclosed 15 May 2013
  • credit Adam Baldwin
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Introduced: 15 May 2013

CVE-2013-7381 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

Untrusted input passed in the call to libnotify.notify could result in execution of shell commands. Callers may be unaware of this.

Source: Node Security Project

Details

Example:

var libnotify = require('libnotify')
libnotify.notify('UNTRUSTED INPUT', { title: \"\" }, function () {
    console.log(arguments);
})

References

Special thanks to Neal Poole for submitting the pull request to fix this issue.