CVE-2021-21372 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2021-21372 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1185083 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2021:0618-1, published Mon Apr 26 00:40:32 2021
openSUSE-SU-2021:0628-1, published Thu Apr 29 21:39:36 2021
openSUSE-SU-2022:10095-1, published Wed Aug 24 10:48:30 2022
openSUSE-SU-2022:10101-1, published Sat Aug 27 18:50:23 2022

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2	`nim >= 1.2.12-bp152.4.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-628
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	`nim >= 1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10095
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	`nim >= 1.6.6-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10101
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`nim >= 1.2.12-lp152.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-618
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`nim >= 1.6.6-bp153.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10095
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`nim >= 1.6.6-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10101
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`nim >= 1.2.12-1.7`	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA nim-1.2.12-1.7

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Mar 27 16:53:02 2021
CVE page last modified: Tue May 23 18:04:17 2023