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Command Injection in open

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 20, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm open (npm)

Affected versions

< 6.0.0

Patched versions

6.0.0

Description

Versions of open before 6.0.0 are vulnerable to command injection when unsanitized user input is passed in.

The package does come with the following warning in the readme:

The same care should be taken when calling open as if you were calling child_process.exec directly. If it is an executable it will run in a new shell.

Recommendation

open is now the deprecated opn package. Upgrading to the latest version is likely have unwanted effects since it now has a very different API but will prevent this vulnerability.

References

Reviewed Jun 20, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 20, 2019
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-28xh-wpgr-7fm8

Source code

No known source code
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