CVE-2020-7789

Aliases:GHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2021:0781
Modified
Published: 11 Dec 2020, 09:55
Last modified:16 Sept 2024, 16:28

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
27/100
CVSS Score
6.8 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.21% LOW
0% probability +0.01%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

11 Dec 2020, 09:55
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Sept 2024, 16:28
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.21%• Percentile: 43%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-78•Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

    The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Systems

  • node-notifier_project•node-notifier

    < 8.0.1

  • Npm•node-notifier

    < 8.0.1

References (5)