Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting mongo-edit package, versions *


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

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  • Snyk ID npm:mongo-edit:20160408
  • published 1 May 2017
  • disclosed 8 Apr 2016
  • credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Michael Pradel, Ben Livshits

Introduced: 8 Apr 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fix version for mongo-edit.

Overview

mongo-edit is a Log Utility.

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.