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CVE-2021-23375

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23375 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting all versions of the psnode package, stemming from unsanitized user input passed to the kill function, which then uses child_process.exec. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands remotely with a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). While the vulnerability is severe, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:psnode_project:psnode:*:*:*:*:*: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-m8fm-mv5w-33pvhigh

Command Injection in psnode

May 6, 2021

References

github.com / nrako/psnode/blob/076f623689e4506d3647505daca13b3f482e0c31/lib/index.js%23L59
Broken Link
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PSNODE-1078543
ExploitThird Party Advisory