Published: 26/03/2021 Updated: 24/10/2022

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #987272 CVE-2021-21372 CVE-2021-21373 CVE-2021-21374 Package: nim; Maintainer for nim is Federico Ceratto <federico@debianorg>; Source for nim is src:nim (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:33:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: secu ...

In Nimble before version 0130, doCmd can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packagesjson package list to trigger code execution ...

CWE-78 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130 https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37 https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987272 https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-21372

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