A OS Command Injection vulnerability exists in Node.js versions <14.21.1, <16.18.1, <18.12.1, <19.0.1 due to an insufficient IsAllowedHost c

Affected versions

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

• nodejs node.js14.0.0 and later · up to 14.14.0 inclusive
• nodejs node.js14.15.0 and later · before 14.21.1
• nodejs node.js16.0.0 and later · up to 16.12.0 inclusive
• nodejs node.js16.13.0 and later · before 16.18.1
• nodejs node.js18.0.0 and later · up to 18.11.0 inclusive
• nodejs node.js18.12.0
• nodejs node.js19.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

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

• NodeJS Node

  • 4.0 and later · before 4.*affected · semver
  • 5.0 and later · before 5.*affected · semver
  • 6.0 and later · before 6.*affected · semver
  • 7.0 and later · before 7.*affected · semver
  • 8.0 and later · before 8.*affected · semver
  • 9.0 and later · before 9.*affected · semver
  • 10.0 and later · before 10.*affected · semver
  • 11.0 and later · before 11.*affected · semver
  • 12.0 and later · before 12.*affected · semver
  • 13.0 and later · before 13.*affected · semver

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-2019-15605HTTP request smuggling in Node.js 10, 12, and 13 causes malicious payload delivery when transfer-encoding is malformed
  56Plan
• CVE-2021-22883Node.js before 10.24.0, 12.21.0, 14.16.0, and 15.10.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when too many connection attempts with an
  53Plan
• CVE-2021-22930Node.js before 16.6.0, 14.17.4, and 12.22.4 is vulnerable to a use after free attack where an attacker might be able to exploit the memory c
  50Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2022-32223Jul 14, 2022 · Node.js is vulnerable to Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Hijacking under certain conditions on Windows platforms.This vulnerability can be exploi
  30Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2022-35255Dec 5, 2022 · A weak randomness in WebCrypto keygen vulnerability exists in Node.js 18 due to a change with EntropySource() in SecretKeyGenTraits::DoKeyGe
  37Monitor
• Later →CVE-2023-23936Feb 16, 2023 · CRLF Injection in Nodejs ‘undici’ via host
  21Monitor

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.