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Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-16042): node-growl vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 4, 2018
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs. Growl before 1.10.2 does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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