CVE-2021-21372 - OpenCVE

Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vendors & Products
CPE Configurations

Vendors	Products
Nim-lang	Nim

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:nim-lang:nim::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:nim-lang:nim::::::::

References

Link	Resource
https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130	Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p	Third Party Advisory

History

No history.

MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-03-26T21:20:15

Updated: 2021-03-26T21:20:15

Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-21372

JSON object: View

NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-26T22:15:12.697

Modified: 2022-10-24T17:14:16.087

Link: CVE-2021-21372

JSON object: View

Redhat Information

No data.

CWE

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