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CVE-2021-23378

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23378 is a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting all versions of the picotts package. It allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by providing malicious input to the say function, due to improper sanitization of input passed to the child_process exec function. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability poses a high risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, its high severity warrants immediate patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:picotts_project:picotts:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0194 is in the 67th 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-wq7q-5v6j-xfv6critical

Command Injection in picotts

May 7, 2021

References

github.com / luisivan/node-picotts/blob/8c6b183b884890c8e9422f93036b374942398c8b/index.js%23L16
Broken Link
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PICOTTS-1078539
ExploitThird Party Advisory