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SUSE: CVE-2021-21372: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/26/2021
Created
04/28/2021
Added
04/27/2021
Modified
10/26/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-nim

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