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CVE-2021-21372

Nimble arbitrary code execution for specially crafted package metadata

CVSS 8.3 HIGHEPSS 3.6%CWE-20CWE-74
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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References
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