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CVE-2018-21268

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

The traceroute (aka node-traceroute) package through 1.0.0 for Node.js allows remote command injection via the host parameter. This occurs because the Child.exec() method, which is considered to be not entirely safe, is used. In particular, an OS command can be placed after a newline character.

Affected products

• Traceroute Project Traceroute: through 1.0.0

References

• https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/commit/b99ee024a01a40d3d20a92ad3769cc78a3f6386f
• https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/tags
• https://medium.com/%40shay_62828/shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-npm-package-a4cf7b6553e3
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:traceroute:20160311
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-activity-6678956453086191616-Rcpy
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1465
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/traceroute
• https://www.op-c.net/2020/06/17/shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-npm-package/
• https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/commit/b99ee024a01a40d3d20a92ad3769cc78a3f6386f
• https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/tags
• https://medium.com/%40shay_62828/shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-npm-package-a4cf7b6553e3
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:traceroute:20160311

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