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CVE-2023-49210

• 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: 2023-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The openssl (aka node-openssl) NPM package through 2.0.0 was characterized as "a nonsense wrapper with no real purpose" by its author, and accepts an opts argument that contains a verb field (used for command execution). NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Affected products

• HackerOne node-openssl node module: through 2.0.0

References

• https://gist.github.com/mcoimbra/b05a55a5760172dccaa0a827647ad63e
• https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/tree/main/malicious/npm
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/openssl
• https://gist.github.com/mcoimbra/b05a55a5760172dccaa0a827647ad63e
• https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/tree/main/malicious/npm
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/openssl

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