Security advisory

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  "id": "3135760f97a4e43ef72ac7b3fd80e8f7680067a651a9fb03b2f0d9b97e635c51",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-13797",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-13797",
    "summary": "The macaddress module before 0.2.9 for Node.js is prone to an arbitrary command injection flaw, due to allowing unsanitized input to an exec (rather than execFile) call.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-13797",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-13797",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-13797",
        "GHSA-pp57-mqmh-44h7"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3379146455636d8e86ccb20fbff2912032d74e66"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69fe5dad2332"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:node-macaddress_project:node-macaddress:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.2.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
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                    "range": [
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                        "fixed": "358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69fe5dad2332"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  },
                  {
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                        "fixed": "3379146455636d8e86ccb20fbff2912032d74e66"
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                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "0.2.9"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.2.8",
            "0.2.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-13797.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:48.244049387Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/pull/20/",
        "https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/commit/358fd594adb196a86b94ac9c691f69fe5dad2332",
        "https://github.com/scravy/node-macaddress/releases/tag/0.2.9",
        "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283394"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-13797",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380817,
  "published_at": "2018-07-10T12:29:00.207+00:00"
}