GHSA-7qmm-q394-fmchCriticalCVSS 9.8

Command Injection in ps-kill

Published
March 19, 2021
Last Modified
September 5, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

This affects all versions of package ps-kill. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the kill function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization in the index.js file.

PoC (provided by reporter):

var ps_kill = require('ps-kill');
ps_kill.kill('$(touch success)', function() {});

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/ps-kill:<= 1.0.0

🔗 References (3)