PT-2021-14455 · Nimble+3 · Nimble+3

Federico Ceratto + 1 · Published 2021-03-26 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2021-21372

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nim versions prior to 1.2.10 Nim versions prior to 1.4.4

Description The issue concerns Nimble, a package manager for the Nim programming language. In affected versions, Nimble's doCmd can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.10, update to version 1.2.10 or later. For versions prior to 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Special Elements Injection

OS Command Injection

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

CWE-78

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-1770

CVE-2021-21372

GHSA-RG9F-W24H-962P

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0618-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0628-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021_0618-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11093-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Nim

Nimble

Suse

References · 42

• 🔥 https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution · Exploit
• https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-21372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-21372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21372 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2021:0618-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11093-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-21372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21372 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-21372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2021:0628-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130 · Note