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Medium · 5.6 CVE-2021-23356 EUVD-2021-0697GHSA-qc65-cgvr-93p6

Arbitrary Command Injection

Published Mar 15, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by snyk

Description

This affects all versions of package kill-process-by-name. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization in the index.js file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— kill-process-by-name < unspecified unspecified

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm kill-process-by-name <= 1.0.5 — GHSA-qc65-cgvr-93p6

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