PT-2020-6158 · Npm · Node-Notifier

Alessio Della Libera + 1 · Published 2020-12-11 · Updated 2020-12-21 · CVE-2020-7789

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions node-notifier versions prior to 9.0.0

Description The issue allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitized when being passed an array. This could enable an attacker to execute malicious commands.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.0.0, update to version 9.0.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider sanitizing the options params when passing arrays to prevent arbitrary command execution.

Fix

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-03206

CVE-2020-7789

GHSA-5FW9-FQ32-WV5P

RHSA-2021:0781

SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371

SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794

Affected Products

Node-Notifier

References · 27

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7789 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7789 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03206 · Security Note
• https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303 · Note
• https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/commit/5d62799dab88505a709cd032653b2320c5813fce · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/19983 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/19966 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/19946 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/19926 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/20175 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/7241 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/20195 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/20157 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/20023 · Telegram Post