GHSA-7xhv-mpjw-422f

Command injection in google-it

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-34083

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	google-it	<= 1.6.2	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-34083 advisory
https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777 web
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it package
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59 web
https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34 web