Security advisory

{
  "id": "9b8ba453aeb101740ce7237f852c5088d2d23eb5091a7507029a62de5d77fff7",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-21268",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-21268",
    "summary": "The traceroute (aka node-traceroute) package through 1.0.0 for Node.js allows remote command injection via the host parameter. This occurs because the Child.exec() method, which is considered to be not entirely safe, is used. In particular, an OS command can be placed after a newline character.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-21268",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-21268",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-21268",
        "GHSA-8j9v-qhp4-wv55"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "654f1002809a46c301c7da5ac4c344879b4cb9a5"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "b99ee024a01a40d3d20a92ad3769cc78a3f6386f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:traceroute_project:traceroute:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.0.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "b99ee024a01a40d3d20a92ad3769cc78a3f6386f"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-21268.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:25.979235647Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://medium.com/%40shay_62828/shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-npm-package-a4cf7b6553e3",
        "https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/tags",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-activity-6678956453086191616-Rcpy",
        "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1465",
        "https://www.npmjs.com/package/traceroute",
        "https://github.com/jaw187/node-traceroute/commit/b99ee024a01a40d3d20a92ad3769cc78a3f6386f",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:traceroute:20160311",
        "https://www.op-c.net/2020/06/17/shell-command-injection-through-traceroute-npm-package/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-21268",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381702,
  "published_at": "2020-06-25T17:15:11.567+00:00"
}