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CVE-2024-21488

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-30 · updated 2026-07-04
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.

Affected products

• Forkhq Network: before 0.7.0 — fixed in 0.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Forkhq Network 0.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369c
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/72c523265940fe279eb0050d441522628f8988e5
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-11426552
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NETWORK-6184371
• https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369c
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7
• https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/72c523265940fe279eb0050d441522628f8988e5
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NETWORK-6184371

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