CVE-2022-21129: nemo-appium vulnerable to OS Command Injection

January 31, 2023 (updated March 27, 2025)

Versions of the package nemo-appium before 0.0.9 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to improper input sanitization in the ‘module.exports.setup’ function.

Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability appium-running 0.1.3 has to be installed as one of nemo-appium dependencies.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6rx-gxqv-vr5j
github.com/paypal/nemo-appium
github.com/paypal/nemo-appium/blob/master/index.js%23L27
github.com/paypal/nemo-appium/commit/aa271d36dd5c81baae3c43aa2616c84f0ee4195f
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21129
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NEMOAPPIUM-3183747

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