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Critical Risk Disclosed

CVE-2024-21488

Versions of the package network before 0.7.0 are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to use of the child_process exec function without input sanitization. If (attacker-controlled) user input is given to the mac_address_for function of the package, it is possible for the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system that this package is being run on.

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Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low Priority
2.20%

The Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) uses machine learning to estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

0% (Theoretical)100% (Certainty)

7-Day Exploitation Trend

Vulnerability Timeline

4 events
Jan 30, 2024
Vulnerability Disclosed
Published to component-level vulnerability database.
Feb 8, 2024
Last Updated
Record updated with new analysis or tags.
Jun 11, 2025
EPSS Score Decreased
Daily EPSS score decreased by 0.137 on 2024-02-01
Nov 19, 2025
EPSS Score Increased
Daily EPSS score increased by 0.206 on 2024-02-01

Threat Actor Attribution

PREMIUM INTEL
Associated Groups:Lazarus Group, APT28
Ransomware Campaigns:LockBit 3.0, BlackCat
IoCs (Indicators):14 IPs, 3 Hashes

Remediation & Mitigation

SOLUTION

Official patches and mitigation steps are available for this vulnerability.

# Update Command
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y specific-package
# Verify installation
dpkg -l | grep package-name

Affected Products

1 Total
forkhq/networkAll Versions

References

https://gist.github.com/icemonster/282ab98fb68fc22aac7c576538f6369cGitHub
ExploitMitigationThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/5599ed6d6ff1571a5ccadea775430c131f381de7GitHub
Patch
https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/6ec8713580938ab4666df2f2d0f3399891ed2ad7GitHub
Patch
https://github.com/tomas/network/commit/72c523265940fe279eb0050d441522628f8988e5GitHub
Patch

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Vulnerability Details

CVSS Base Score
9.8/ 10
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published Date
Jan 30, 2024
Last Modified
Feb 8, 2024
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