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CVE-2021-21372

Published: Mar 26, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.3

HIGH

Description

Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.

VendorProductVersions

nim-lang

security

affected
< 1.2.10
affected
>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20
CWE-74

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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