Security advisory

{
  "id": "1313a57aea0947d34ace715fe5ade1623ffe3650598bbba63d8c1ec50d4ccf4b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-7789",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-7789",
    "summary": "This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-7789",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-7789",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-7789",
        "GHSA-5fw9-fq32-wv5p"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "5d62799dab88505a709cd032653b2320c5813fce"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:node-notifier_project:node-notifier:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "8.0.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v5.4.3",
            "v8.0.0",
            "v7.0.2",
            "v7.0.1",
            "v7.0.0",
            "v6.0.0",
            "v5.4.0",
            "v5.3.0",
            "v5.2.1",
            "v5.2.0",
            "v5.1.2",
            "v5.1.1",
            "v5.1.0",
            "v5.0.2",
            "v5.0.1",
            "v5.0.0",
            "v4.6.1",
            "v4.6.0",
            "v4.5.0",
            "v4.4.0",
            "v4.3.1",
            "v4.3.0",
            "v4.2.3",
            "v4.2.2",
            "v4.2.1",
            "v4.2.0",
            "v4.1.2",
            "v4.1.1",
            "v4.1.0",
            "v4.0.2",
            "v4.0.1",
            "v4.0.0",
            "v3.4.1",
            "v3.4.0",
            "v3.2.1",
            "v3.2.0",
            "v3.1.3",
            "v3.1.2",
            "v3.1.1",
            "v3.1.0",
            "v3.0.6",
            "v3.0.5",
            "v3.0.3",
            "v3.0.2",
            "v3.0.0-1",
            "v3.0.0",
            "v2.0.6",
            "v2.0.5",
            "v2.0.4",
            "v2.0.3",
            "v2.0.2",
            "v2.0.1",
            "v2.0.0-alpha",
            "v1.2.1",
            "v1.2.0",
            "v1.1.2-0",
            "v1.1.1-2",
            "v1.1.1-1",
            "v1.1.1",
            "v1.1.0",
            "v1.0.0-beta2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-7789.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:44.929096057Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/blob/master/lib/utils.js%23L303",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1050371",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODENOTIFIER-1035794"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-7789",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435997,
  "published_at": "2020-12-11T10:15:12.423+00:00"
}