CVE-2022-39243CWE-77

NuProcess vulnerable to command-line injection through insertion of NUL character(s)

High · published September 26, 2022

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
2%
Percentile
75.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

NuProcess is an external process execution implementation for Java. In all the versions of NuProcess where it forks processes by using the JVM's Java_java_lang_UNIXProcess_forkAndExec method (1.2.0+), attackers can use NUL characters in their strings to perform command line injection. Java's ProcessBuilder isn't vulnerable because of a check in ProcessBuilder.start. NuProcess is missing that check. This vulnerability can only be exploited to inject command line arguments on Linux. Version 2.0.5 contains a patch. As a workaround, users of the library can sanitize command strings to remove NUL characters prior to passing them to NuProcess for execution.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01560 · 75.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
Published
2022-09-26T13:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 SEP 13:25Z
    NuProcess vulnerable to command-line injection through insertion of NUL character(s)
    cvelistv5