sebhildebrandt systeminformation up to 5.23.6 getWindowsIEEE8021x code injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in sebhildebrandt systeminformation up to 5.23.6. Affected by this issue is the function getWindowsIEEE8021x. Executing a manipulation can lead to code injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-56334. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in sebhildebrandt systeminformation up to 5.23.6. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function getWindowsIEEE8021x. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. In affected versions SSIDs are not sanitized when before they are passed as a parameter to cmd.exe in the `getWindowsIEEE8021x` function. This means that malicious content in the SSID can be executed as OS commands. This vulnerability may enable an attacker, depending on how the package is used, to perform remote code execution or local privilege escalation. This issue has been addressed in version 5.23.7 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-56334 since 12/19/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.23.7 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f7af0a67b78e7894335a6cad510566a25e06ae41 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• sebhildebrandt

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• systeminformation

Version

• 5.23.0
• 5.23.1
• 5.23.2
• 5.23.3
• 5.23.4
• 5.23.5
• 5.23.6

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/

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