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
CVSS detail	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
CVSS detail	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-2024-11093

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2	nim	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	nim	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	nim	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Mar 27 16:53:02 2021
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:53:22 2025