CVE-2018-13797

moderate-risk
Published 2018-07-10

The macaddress module before 0.2.9 for Node.js is prone to an arbitrary command injection flaw, due to allowing unsanitized input to an exec (rather than execFile) call.

Do I need to act?

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11.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 3379146455636d8e86ccb20fbff2912032d74e66, 358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69fe5dad2332
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Node-Macaddress Project

References (8)

Patch https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/commit/358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69f...
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/pull/20/
Patch https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/releases/tag/0.2.9
Exploit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283394
Patch https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/commit/358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69f...
Third Party Advisory https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/pull/20/
Patch https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/releases/tag/0.2.9
Exploit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283394
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moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 11/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal