Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting libnmap package, versions <0.4.16
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.28% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-LIBNMAP-72551
- published 4 Nov 2018
- disclosed 14 Oct 2018
- credit Cristian-Alexandru Staicu
Introduced: 14 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-16461 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade libnmap
to version 0.4.16 or higher.
Overview
libnmap is an API to access nmap from node.js.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. If the attacker is allowed to provide the "range" field for the network scan, they could inject arbitrary OS commands instead of a valid IP range.