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GHSA-9hqj-38j2-5jgm
No affected components available
Versions of ascii-art before 1.4.4 are vulnerable to command injection. This is exploitable when user input is passed into the argument of the ascii-art preview command.
Example Proof of concept:
ascii-art preview 'doom"; touch /tmp/malicious; echo "'
Given that the input is passed on the command line and none of the api methods are vulnerable to this, the likely exploitation vector is when the ascii-art comment is being called programmatically using something like execFile.
Recommendation
Update to version 1.4.4 or later.
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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