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CVE-2021-23374

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23374 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting all versions of the ps-visitor package. It allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system by providing malicious input to the 'kill' function, due to improper input sanitization within the 'child_process exec' function. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a severe risk with no user interaction required and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV, Hot List inactive) and no public exploit modules (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.

Impacted Technologies

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

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 55th 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-v2jv-33gh-xx29critical

Command Injection in ps-visitor

May 7, 2021

References

github.com / WisdomKwan/ps-visitor/blob/cdfc934a8e4af95aa0473f4b2a4bd091d09faf2f/index.js%23L404
Broken Link
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PSVISITOR-1078544
ExploitThird Party Advisory