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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:picotts_project:picotts:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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