CVE-2021-21372
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 21:20
Modified
2024-08-03 18:09
Severity ?
8.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962pThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962pThird Party Advisory
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nim-lang security Version: < 1.2.10
Version: >= 1.4.0, < 1.4.4
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