CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-34083
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format. When using the 'Open in browser' option in versions up to 1.6.2, google-it will unsafely concat the result's link retrieved from google to a shell command, potentially exposing the server to RCE.
Affected configurations
• google-it project google-it (<= 1.6.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34 Exploit, Third Party Advisory