Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-33041

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the vmd package (npm). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 32.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class="markdown-body"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
npm	vmd	no fix listed	GHSA-pfr3-87q3-65rc

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/vmd/issues/137 x_refsource_MISC