Security advisory
Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-21488
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 04:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.
osv:CVE-2024-21488
Complete source record
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"summary": "Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.476471392Z",
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"references": [
"https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369c",
"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-11426552",
"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NETWORK-6184371",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/21xxx/CVE-2024-21488.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21488",
"https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7",
"https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 514609,
"published_at": "2024-01-30T05:00:01.547+00:00"
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