Vulnerability · Published Jan 9, 2025 · Assigned by hackerone

CVE-2024-27980

High 8.1

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A high-severity command injection in Node from NodeJS. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)8.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Due to the improper handling of batch files in child_process.spawn / child_process.spawnSync, a malicious command line argument can inject arbitrary commands and achieve code execution even if the shell option is not enabled.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
NodeJS	Node	4.0 – before 4.5.0 – before 5.6.0 – before 6.7.0 – before 7.8.0 – before 8.9.0 – before 9.10.0 – before 10.11.0 – before 11.

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Official description

Affected products (as reported)

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