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GHSA-64g7-mvw6-v9qj
No affected components available
Impact
Output from the synchronous version of shell.exec() may be visible to other users on the same system. You may be affected if you execute shell.exec() in multi-user Mac, Linux, or WSL environments, or if you execute shell.exec() as the root user.
Other shelljs functions (including the asynchronous version of shell.exec()) are not impacted.
Patches
Patched in shelljs 0.8.5
Workarounds
Recommended action is to upgrade to 0.8.5.
References
https://huntr.dev/bounties/50996581-c08e-4eed-a90e-c0bac082679c/
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Ask at https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs/issues/1058
- Open an issue at https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs/issues/new
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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