CVE-2018-3772 (GCVE-0-2018-3772)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-30 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:26
VLAI
Summary
Concatenating unsanitized user input in the `whereis` npm module < 0.4.1 allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The `whereis` module is deprecated and it is recommended to use the `which` npm module instead.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-77 - Command Injection - Generic (CWE-77)
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://hackerone.com/reports/319476 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
https://github.com/vvo whereis Affected: >= 0.4.1
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Date Public
2018-03-28 00:00
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