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Command injection in google-it

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

npm google-it (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.6.2

Patched versions

None

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 2, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 3, 2022
Reviewed Jun 3, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

High
8.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-34083

GHSA ID

GHSA-7xhv-mpjw-422f

Source code

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