VDB
CVE-2021-21372
CVE-2021-21372
PUBLISHED
CVSS 8.300000190734863 HIGH
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.
EPSS 3.62% · 89.4th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
8.300000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
3.62%
89.4th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:25.10 | nim | 2.2.4-1, 1.6.14-1ubuntu2, 0 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | nim | 0, 0.17.2-1ubuntu1, 0.17.2-1ubuntu2 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | nim | *, 0.12.0-2, 0 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | nim | 1.0.6-1, 0.20.2-1, 1.0.2-1 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | nim | 1.6.14-1, 1.6.14-1ubuntu2, 1.6.14-1ubuntu1 |
Timeline
- Mar 26, 2021 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 29, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 9, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 11, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/ third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21372 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-21372 advisory