Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package execa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-EXECA-174564
  • published1 May 2019
  • disclosed1 Mar 2019
  • creditehmicky

Introduced: 1 Mar 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

execa is a package for running child executing.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection by passing arguments like $(rm -rf /) or && rm -rf / due to using the execa.shell() option.