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CVE-2021-23348

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23348 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability affecting the 'portprocesses' package prior to version 1.0.5. It allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands by providing malicious input to the 'killProcess' function, due to improper sanitization of user input passed to 'child_process.exec'. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high potential for impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:portprocesses_project:portprocesses:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: portprocessesFixed in: 1.0.5

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-vm67-7vmg-66vmmedium

Arbitrary Command Injection in portprocesses

Apr 6, 2021

References

github.com / rrainn/PortProcesses/blob/fffceb09aff7180afbd0bd172e820404b33c8299/index.js%23L23
Broken Link
github.com / rrainn/PortProcesses/commit/86811216c9b97b01b5722f879f8c88a7aa4214e1
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / rrainn/PortProcesses/security/advisories/GHSA-vm67-7vmg-66vm
ExploitThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PORTPROCESSES-1078536
ExploitThird Party Advisory