CVE-2021-34083

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format. When using the 'Open in browser' option in versions up to 1.6.2, google-it will unsafely concat the result's link retrieved from google to a shell command, potentially exposing the server to RCE.

Affected products

Google-It Project Google-It: through 1.6.2

References

https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34
https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34

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