CVE-2021-34083 (GCVE-0-2021-34083)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-01 14:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6… | x_refsource_MISC |
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