CVE-2021-23356

Arbitrary Command Injection

State
Published
Severity
5.6 Medium
Published
Mar 15, 2021
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 8, 2021

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Description

This affects all versions of package kill-process-by-name. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization in the index.js file.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:Psnyk

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kill-process-by-namen/a
  • before unspecifiedAffected

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