Detections
Analytics
CVE-2021-21372
high
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.
References
https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130
https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/