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GHSA-753c-phhg-cj29

Published Mar 12, 2021·Last modified Mar 13, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

This affects the package madge before 4.0.1. It is possible to specify a custom Graphviz path via the graphVizPath option parameter which, when the .image(), .svg() or .dot() functions are called, is executed by the childprocess.exec function.

PoC

const madge = require('madge'); 
madge('..', {graphVizPath: "touch HELLO;"}) .then((res) => res.svg()) .then((writtenImagePath) => { console.log('Image written to ' + writtenImagePath); });
Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
2.06%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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