Description
Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
nim-lang security
< 1.2.10affected>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.4affected
References
- https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/ ↗
- https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p ↗
- https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130 ↗
- https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37 ↗