GMS-2020-2: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

May 15, 2020

Attackers could trick execa into executing arbitrary binaries. This behaviour is caused by the setting preferLocal=true which makes execa search for locally installed binaries and executes them. This vulnerability is usually only exploitable when using execa on a client-side LOCAL application.

References

github.com/sindresorhus/execa/releases/tag/v2.0.0
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/gemnasium-db/-/issues/301

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