CVE-2021-23348Arbitrary Command Injection
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package portprocesses before 1.0.5. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the killProcess 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
portprocesses
- affected unspecified – < 1.0.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmportprocessesGHSA-vm67-7vmg-66vm (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PORTPROCESSES-1078536 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rrainn/PortProcesses/blob/fffceb09aff7180afbd0bd172e820404b33c8299/index.js%23L23 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rrainn/PortProcesses/security/advisories/GHSA-vm67-7vmg-66vm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rrainn/PortProcesses/commit/86811216c9b97b01b5722f879f8c88a7aa4214e1 (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-2021-0881 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vm67-7vmg-66vm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2021-23348)Record last updated .