CVE-2026-50289
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
3.6%
88.9th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-78
Published 2026-07-17 · modified 2026-07-29
Description
systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. Prior to 5.31.7, networkInterfaces() on Linux is vulnerable to OS command injection through the Debian/Ubuntu interfaces(5) source directive because lib/network.js checkLinuxDCHPInterfaces() reads /etc/network/interfaces, extracts a source <path> token from file content, and interpolates it unquoted into cat ${file} 2> /dev/null | grep 'iface\|source' executed by execSync(cmd, util.execOptsLinux), allowing a path containing shell metacharacters to execute commands in any process that calls networkInterfaces(), including via getStaticData() and getAllData(). This issue is fixed in version 5.31.7.
Affected
References
- https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/commit/bbfddde48672d0ee124fefdb3cb4442fd9dd4f03
- https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/releases/tag/v5.31.7
- exploit https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/security/advisories/GHSA-5xpp-75jx-m839
- exploit https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/security/advisories/GHSA-5xpp-75jx-m839