Affected versions of pidusage pass unsanitized input to child_process.exec(), resulting in arbitrary code execution in the ps method.
This package is vulnerable to this PoC on Darwin, SunOS, FreeBSD, and AIX.
Windows and Linux are not vulnerable.
var pid = require('pidusage');
pid.stat('1 && /usr/local/bin/python');
Update to version 1.1.5 or later.
{
"nvd_published_at": "2017-11-17T01:29:00Z",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-78"
],
"severity": "CRITICAL",
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-22T23:18:39Z"
}