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Clamscan vulnerable to command injection

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 19, 2023

Package

npm clamscan (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.2.0

Patched versions

1.3.0

Description

clamscan through 1.2.0 is vulnerable to Command Injection. It is possible to inject arbitrary commands as part of the _is_clamav_binary function located within Index.js. It should be noted that this vulnerability requires a pre-requisite that a folder should be created with the same command that will be chained to execute. This lowers the risk of this issue.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 7, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Oct 19, 2023
Last updated Oct 19, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

1.666%
(88th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7613

GHSA ID

GHSA-5v25-xr56-phph

Source code

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