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CVE-2020-7789: Command Injection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.

Affected products

• node-notifier: before 8.0.1 — fixed in 8.0.1
• Npm Node-Notifier: before 8.0.1 — fixed in 8.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: node-notifier 8.0.1; Npm Node-Notifier 8.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794
• https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794

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