CVE-2021-21372
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.8%
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.
How to fix CVE-2021-21372
To remediate CVE-2021-21372, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nim—upgrade to 1.4.6+really1.4.2-1 or later
Is CVE-2021-21372 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.4.6+really1.4.2-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |