CVE-2021-21372highCWE-20CWE-74

CVE-2021-21372: high-severity vulnerability in nim-lang security

Nimble arbitrary code execution for specially crafted package metadata

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.3epss 3.6%
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 · security
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