Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2021-21315

System Information Library for Node.JS Command Injection

What is affected

Vendor Npm package
Product System Information Library for Node.JS
Weakness CWE-78

The vulnerability

In this vulnerability, an attacker can send a malicious payload that will exploit the name parameter. After successful exploitation, attackers can execute remote.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 1 February 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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