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Medium

Prototype Pollution in systeminformation

  • Disclosed: 27.11.2020
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Impact

command injection vulnerability by prototype pollution

Patches

Problem was fixed with a rewrite of shell sanitations to avoid prototyper pollution problems. Please upgrade to version >= 4.30.2

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade, be sure to check or sanitize service parameter strings that are passed to si.inetChecksite()

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package systeminformation < 4.30.5 4.30.5

References

CVSS score 8.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-471, CWE-78
Platform
npm
Package
systeminformation
Disclosed
27.11.2020
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4v2w-h9jm-mqjg - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: systeminformation

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (14) in the archive
Total entries
14
First → latest
10.2020 07.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
1

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 10
  • Medium 3

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. systeminformation: OS command injection in networkInterfaces() via interfaces(5) source-directive path on Linux
    High CVE-2026-50289 < 5.31.7 5.31.7
  2. Systeminformation vulnerable to Linux command injection in networkInterfaces() via unsanitized NetworkManager connection profile name
    High · 7.8 CVE-2026-44724 >= 4.17.0, < 5.31.6 5.31.6
  3. Command Injection via Unsanitized `locate` Output in `versions()` — systeminformation
    High · 8.8 CVE-2026-26318 < 5.31.0 5.31.0
  4. Systeminformation has a Command Injection via unsanitized interface parameter in wifi.js retry path
    High · 8.4 CVE-2026-26280 < 5.30.8 5.30.8
  5. systeminformation has a Command Injection vulnerability in fsSize() function on Windows
    High · 8.1 CVE-2025-68154 < 5.27.14 5.27.14
  6. Systeminformation has command injection vulnerability in getWindowsIEEE8021x (SSID)
    High · 7.8 CVE-2024-56334 < 5.23.7 5.23.7
  7. systeminformation SSID Command Injection Vulnerability
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2023-42810 >= 5.0.0, < 5.21.7 5.21.7
  8. OS Command Injection in systeminformation
    High · 7.3 CVE-2020-7778 < 4.30.2 4.30.2
  9. Command Injection Vulnerability in systeminformation
    High · 8.9 CVE-2021-21388 < 5.6.4 5.6.4
  10. Command Injection Vulnerability
    High · 7.8 Exploited in attacks CVE-2021-21315 < 5.3.1 5.3.1
  11. Prototype Pollution in systeminformation this entry
    Medium · 8.1 CVE-2020-26245 < 4.30.5 4.30.5
  12. systeminformation command injection vulnerability
    High · 8.8 CVE-2020-7752 < 4.27.11 4.27.11

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