Severity
7.5
High severity
Details
- CVSS score
- 7.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Overview
About vulnerability
Summary
Due to the insufficient sanitization of the file argument in the launchEditor, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on Windows by supplying a filename that contains special characters.
Impact
If the following conditions are met, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the computer that is using the launch-editor:
- An attacker can place a file with the malicious filename
- An attacker can call the
launchEditormethod with thefileargument controlled - The
launch-editorpackage is running on Windows
For example, some development server using this package satisfy these conditions, as a malicious website might be able to force the downloading of a file and the path of that file is predictable.
Patch
This issue has been fixed in the launch-editor version 2.9.0 (commit).