CVE-2021-21372
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 21:20
Modified
2024-08-03 18:09
EPSS score ?
0.33% (0.70975)
Summary
Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nim-lang security Version: < 1.2.10
Version: >= 1.4.0, < 1.4.4
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