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CVE-2017-16042
Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing…
Critical9.8EPSS 4.6%
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- hackerone
Description
Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.6% · top 8.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected <1.10.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (3)
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/146 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/tj/node-growl/pull/61 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/tj/node-growl/issues/60 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qh2h-chj9-jffq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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