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CVE-2021-23378: Arbitrary Command Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

This affects all versions of package picotts. If attacker-controlled user input is given to the say function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization.

Affected products

• picotts: all versions

References

• https://github.com/luisivan/node-picotts/blob/8c6b183b884890c8e9422f93036b374942398c8b/index.js%23L16
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PICOTTS-1078539
• https://github.com/luisivan/node-picotts/blob/8c6b183b884890c8e9422f93036b374942398c8b/index.js%23L16
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PICOTTS-1078539

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