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CVE-2017-16100

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

dns-sync is a sync/blocking dns resolver. If untrusted user input is allowed into the resolve() method then command injection is possible.

Affected products

• HackerOne dns-sync node module: through 0.1.1

References

• https://github.com/skoranga/node-dns-sync/issues/5
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/523
• https://github.com/skoranga/node-dns-sync/issues/5
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/523

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