The issue occurs because tagName user input is formatted inside the exec function is executed without any checks.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• mversion project mversionbefore 2.0.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (snyk). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a mversion

  • unspecified and later · before 2.0.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-4059Command Injection in mversion
  30Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.