CVE-2021-34083: Command injection in google-it

June 3, 2022

Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format. When using the ‘Open in browser’ option in versions up to 1.6.2, google-it will unsafely concat the result’s link retrieved from google to a shell command, potentially exposing the server to RCE.

References

advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777
github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js
github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js
github.com/advisories/GHSA-7xhv-mpjw-422f
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-34083

Code Behaviors & Features

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