CVE-2021-34083 Information

Description

Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format. When using the ‘Open in browser’ option in versions up to 1.6.2 google-it will unsafely concat the result’s link retrieved from google to a shell command potentially exposing the server to RCE.

Reference

https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34 https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59 https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777