UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16042

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042

Upstream

CVE-2017-16042

Published

2018-06-04T19:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:46:34Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / node-growl

Package

Name: node-growl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-growl@1.7.0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.7.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-growl",
            "binary_version": "1.7.0-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / node-growl