CVE-2023-40582 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting versions of the find-exec utility prior to 1.0.3, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands due to improper input sanitization. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability presents a severe risk, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, immediate patching to version 1.0.3 is strongly recommended, or ensuring all input to find-exec is from trusted sources if upgrading is not feasible.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:find-exec_project:find-exec:*:*:*:*:*: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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