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CVE-2022-21191

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Versions of the package global-modules-path before 3.0.0 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to missing input sanitization or other checks and sandboxes being employed to the getPath function.

Affected products

• global-modules-path: before 3.0.0 — fixed in 3.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: global-modules-path 3.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/lorenzomigliorero/npm-node-utils/blob/b55dd81c597db657c9751332bb2242403fd3e26b/index.js%23L186
• https://github.com/rosen-vladimirov/global-modules-path/commit/edbdaff077ea0cf295b1469923c06bbccad3c180
• https://github.com/rosen-vladimirov/global-modules-path/releases/tag/v3.0.0
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GLOBALMODULESPATH-3167973
• https://github.com/lorenzomigliorero/npm-node-utils/blob/b55dd81c597db657c9751332bb2242403fd3e26b/index.js%23L186
• https://github.com/rosen-vladimirov/global-modules-path/commit/edbdaff077ea0cf295b1469923c06bbccad3c180
• https://github.com/rosen-vladimirov/global-modules-path/releases/tag/v3.0.0
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GLOBALMODULESPATH-3167973

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