Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting m2m-supervisor package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:m2m-supervisor:20160408
- published 1 May 2017
- disclosed 8 Apr 2016
- credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits
How to fix?
There is no fix version for m2m-supervisor.
Overview
m2m-supervisor contains a set of processes that can run on an embedded processing platform.
Affected versions of the 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.