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CVE-2017-5941

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 61.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

An issue was discovered in the node-serialize package 0.0.4 for Node.js. Untrusted data passed into the unserialize() function can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution by passing a JavaScript Object with an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

Affected products

• Node-Serialize Project Node-Serialize: through 0.0.4

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161356/Node.JS-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163222/Node.JS-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96225
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/311
• https://opsecx.com/index.php/2017/02/08/exploiting-node-js-deserialization-bug-for-remote-code-execution/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161356/Node.JS-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163222/Node.JS-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96225
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/311
• https://opsecx.com/index.php/2017/02/08/exploiting-node-js-deserialization-bug-for-remote-code-execution/

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