FKIE_CVE-2021-23378

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-04-18 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:38
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
This affects all versions of package picotts. If attacker-controlled user input is given to the say function, it is possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This is due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization.
References
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/luisivan/node-picotts/blob/8c6b183b884890c8e9422f93036b374942398c8b/index.js%23L16Broken Link
report@snyk.iohttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PICOTTS-1078539Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/luisivan/node-picotts/blob/8c6b183b884890c8e9422f93036b374942398c8b/index.js%23L16Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PICOTTS-1078539Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
picotts_project picotts *
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          "vendor": "n/a",
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    },
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  "id": "CVE-2021-23378",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:38:39.187",
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