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Unsafe eval() in summit allows arbitrary code execution

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 1, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 14, 2023

Package

npm summit (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.1.0, <= 0.1.22

Patched versions

None

Description

Affected versions of summit allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands via collection names when using the PouchDB driver.

Recommendation

No direct patch is available at this time.

Currently, the best option to mitigate the issue is to avoid using the PouchDB driver, as the package author has abandoned this feature entirely.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 4, 2018
Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 1, 2020
Last updated Nov 14, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.206%
(59th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16020

GHSA ID

GHSA-cwcp-6c48-fm7m

Source code

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