Medium
Security advisory
vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class="markdown-body"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33041
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
vmd through 1.34.0 allows 'div class="markdown-body"' XSS, as demonstrated by Electron remote code execution via require('child_process').execSync('calc.exe') on Windows and a similar attack on macOS.
osv:CVE-2021-33041
Complete source record
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