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ModerateVulnerabilityGHSA-4v2w-h9jm-mqjgCVE-2020-26245Published 27 Nov 2020

Prototype Pollution in systeminformation

Your version

Affected releases · systeminformation

  • 4.x4.0.0 – 4.30.4Fixed in 4.30.5
  • 3.x and older1.0.0 – 3.54.0No fix, no longer updated

On 4.x, the newest line:

npm install systeminformation@4.30.5
Every release on a timeline
5.x

  1. Not affected

    5.0.0 – 5.33.18

    375 releases, latest

4.x

  1. Affected

    4.0.0 – 4.30.4

    165 releases

  2. Fixed

    4.30.5 – 4.34.23

    44 releases

3.x

  1. Affected

    3.0.0 – 3.54.0

    177 releases

2.x

  1. Affected

    2.0.0 – 2.0.5

    6 releases

1.x

  1. Affected

    1.0.0 – 1.0.7

    8 releases

775 stable releases of systeminformation, oldest to newest, one row per major.

What happens

Impact

command injection vulnerability by prototype pollution

Patches

Problem was fixed with a rewrite of shell sanitations to avoid prototyper pollution problems. Please upgrade to version >= 4.30.2

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade, be sure to check or sanitize service parameter strings that are passed to si.inetChecksite()

For more information

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