- 5.6MediumCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Affected products
node-notifier
- affected unspecified – < 9.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmnode-notifierGHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-1483 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-7789)Record last updated .