PT-2018-12193 · Node.Js · Macaddress

Q3K · Published 2018-07-10 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-13797

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions macaddress versions prior to 0.2.9

Description The issue is related to an arbitrary command injection flaw in the macaddress module for Node.js. This is due to the module allowing unsanitized input to an exec call. For this issue to be exploited, an attacker needs to control the iface argument to the one method.

Recommendations Update to version 0.2.9 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the one method or sanitizing the iface argument to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-13797

GHSA-PP57-MQMH-44H7

Affected Products

Macaddress

References · 16

• 🔥 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283394 · Exploit
• https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/commit/358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69fe5dad2332 · Patch
• https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/releases/tag/0.2.9 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-13797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13797 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pp57-mqmh-44h7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-13797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-13797 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-13797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress · Note
• https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/pull/20 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pp57-mqmh-44h7 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/654 · Note