Description
This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Weakness
- Command Injection
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
node-notifier
- affected unspecified – < 9.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmnode-notifierGHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303 (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-5fw9-fq32-wv5p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-7789)Record last updated .