CVE-2021-21372 - OpenCVE

Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Nim-lang	Nim

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:nim-lang:nim::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:nim-lang:nim::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37
https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-03-26T21:20:15

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:09:15.920Z

Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-21372

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-26T22:15:12.697

Modified: 2022-10-24T17:14:16.087

Link: CVE-2021-21372

Redhat

No data.

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