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CVE-2021-23355

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23355 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting all versions of the ps-kill package. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands by providing malicious input to the kill function, due to the unsanitized use of child_process.exec. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability presents a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is there publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ps-kill_project:ps-kill:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.6MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-7qmm-q394-fmchcritical

Command Injection in ps-kill

Mar 19, 2021

References

snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PSKILL-1078529
ExploitThird Party Advisory