Description
The kerberos package before 1.0.0 for Node.js allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation via injection of malicious DLLs through use of the kerberos_sspi LoadLibrary() method, because of a DLL path search.
Remediation
References
https://medium.com/%40kiddo_Ha3ker/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-cb4b32031cd
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/op-innovate_dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package-activity-6667043749547253760-kVlW
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1514
https://www.op-c.net/2020/05/15/dll-injection-attack-in-kerberos-npm-package/
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