CVE-2026-26280: high-severity vulnerability in sebhildebrandt systeminformation
Systeminformation has a Command Injection via unsanitized interface parameter in wifi.js retry path
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.4epss 1.4%
systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. In versions prior to 5.30.8, a command injection vulnerability in the `wifiNetworks()` function allows an attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands via an unsanitized network interface parameter in the retry code path. In `lib/wifi.js`, the `wifiNetworks()` function sanitizes the `iface` parameter on the initial call (line 437). However, when the initial scan returns empty results, a `setTimeout` retry (lines 440-441) calls `getWifiNetworkListIw(iface)` with the **original unsanitized** `iface` value, which is passed directly to `execSync('iwlist ${iface} scan')`. Any application passing user-controlled input to `si.wifiNetworks()` is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the Node.js process. Version 5.30.8 fixes the issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26280https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441121https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/commit/22242aa56188f2bffcbd7d265a11e1ebb808b460https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/security/advisories/GHSA-9c88-49p5-5ggfhttps://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-26280.json