Critical

Potential Command Injection in libnotify

Disclosed: 31.08.2020
Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Versions 1.0.3 and earlier of libnotify are affected by a shell command injection vulnerability. This may result in execution of arbitrary shell commands, if user input is passed into libnotify.notify.

Untrusted input passed in the call to libnotify.notify could result in execution of shell commands. Callers may be unaware of this.

Example

var libnotify = require('libnotify')
libnotify.notify('UNTRUSTED INPUT', { title: \"\" }, function () {
    console.log(arguments);
})

Special thanks to Neal Poole for submitting the pull request to fix this issue.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.0.4 or greater

Affected software

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Platform	Package	Vulnerable versions	Fixed in
npm package	libnotify	< 1.0.4	1.0.4

References

CVSS score 9.8/10

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-74
Platform: npm
Package: libnotify
Disclosed: 31.08.2020
Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-6898-wx94-8jq8 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: libnotify

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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