Reported

July 15, 2021

Issued

September 9, 2021 (last modified: September 10, 2021)

Package

bat (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• code-execution

Aliases

• CVE-2021-36753
• GHSA-p24j-h477-76q3

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36753

CVSS Score

7.8 HIGH

CVSS Details

Attack vector

Local

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Patched

• >=0.18.2

Affected OSes

• windows

Description

bat on windows before 0.18.2 executes programs named less.exe from the current working directory. This can lead to unintended code execution.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.