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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-50289 EUVD-2026-45265GHSA-5xpp-75jx-m839

systeminformation: OS command injection in networkInterfaces() via interfaces(5) source-directive path on Linux

Published Jul 17, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. Prior to 5.31.7, networkInterfaces() on Linux is vulnerable to OS command injection through the Debian/Ubuntu interfaces(5) source directive because lib/network.js checkLinuxDCHPInterfaces() reads /etc/network/interfaces, extracts a source <path> token from file content, and interpolates it unquoted into cat ${file} 2> /dev/null | grep 'iface\|source' executed by execSync(cmd, util.execOptsLinux), allowing a path containing shell metacharacters to execute commands in any process that calls networkInterfaces(), including via getStaticData() and getAllData(). This issue is fixed in version 5.31.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sebhildebrandt systeminformation < 5.31.7 —

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 5.31.7-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-systeminformation No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm systeminformation < 5.31.7 5.31.7 GHSA-5xpp-75jx-m839

References