CVE-2017-16042 Information

Description

Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec allowing for arbitrary command execution.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/tj/node-growl/issues/60 https://github.com/tj/node-growl/pull/61 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/146

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8