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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-116674 EUVD-2026-111104GHSA-7648-jmwf-vw7j

systeminformation: Prototype pollution in `networkStats()` via the interface name

Published Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. Prior to 5.33.13, networkStats(ifaces) in lib/network.js on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD stores per-interface data in the plain-object _network cache and indexes it with the sanitized caller-controlled interface name. Passing proto causes the inherited Object.prototype value to be used instead of creating an own cache entry, so calcNetworkSpeed() writes rx_bytes, tx_bytes, rx_sec, tx_sec, ms, last_ms, and operstate onto Object.prototype. The polluted property names are fixed and their values come from interface statistics, but inherited-name collisions and enumerable keys can corrupt application branching, serialization, configuration merging, validation, or lookup behavior. This issue is fixed in version 5.33.13.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sebhildebrandt systeminformation < 5.33.13 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-systeminformation No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-systeminformation No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm systeminformation < 5.33.13 5.33.13 GHSA-7648-jmwf-vw7j

References