CVE-2022-23812
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 5.6%Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc
Published: 3/16/2022Modified: 3/16/2026
Description
The package node-ipc versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 are vulnerable to embedded malicious code that was introduced by the maintainer. The malicious code was intended to overwrite arbitrary files dependent upon the geo-location of the user IP address. The maintainer removed the malicious code in version 10.1.3.
Affected packages (1)
- npm/node-ipc>= 10.1.1, < 10.1.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23812
- PATCHhttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc
- WEBhttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/blob/847047cf7f81ab08352038b2204f0e7633449580/dao/ssl-geospec.js
- WEBhttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/commit/847047cf7f81ab08352038b2204f0e7633449580
- WEBhttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233
- WEBhttps://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/236
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0005
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEIPC-2426370