Nimble arbitrary code execution for specially crafted package metadata
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.3epss 3.6%
exploitation probability
3.6%top 12% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
nim-lang · securityReferences
https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/commit/7bd63d504a4157b8ed61a51af47fb086ee818c37https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-rg9f-w24h-962p