UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16042

    Published: 4 Jun 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-16042

    Summary:

    Details: Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16042, https://github.com/tj/node-growl/pull/61, https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/146, https://github.com/tj/node-growl/issues/60, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16042

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-growl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.7.0-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High