CVE-2024-21488

critical

Description

Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NETWORK-6184371

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-11426552

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/72c523265940fe279eb0050d441522628f8988e5

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7

https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7

https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-01-30

Updated: 2026-07-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01689