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CVE-2021-23381

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23381 is a critical command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) affecting all versions of the 'killing' package within the killing_project. It allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely due to unsanitized user input being passed to the child_process exec function. While rated 9.8 Critical on CVSS and having a high FAUCET Risk Score of 80/100, 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:killing_project:killing:*:*:*:*:*: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-cq77-8jpx-892ghigh

Command Injection in killing

May 6, 2021

References

github.com / xudafeng/killing/blob/672ed164ccdd10c0a8fb93c5c6d2456f1dfab781/lib/killing.js%23L62
Broken Link
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-KILLING-1078532
ExploitThird Party Advisory