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CVE-2024-21488

Published: Jan 30, 2024

Modified: Jun 17, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.3

HIGH

Description

Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	network	affected `0 - < 0.7.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NETWORK-6184371

https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369c

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/72c523265940fe279eb0050d441522628f8988e5

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7

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