THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-16042
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2017-16042

Growl vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.
Affected vendor
Growl Project
Affected product
Growl
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-06-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-16042

  • Confirm whether Growl Project Growl is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-16042.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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