Description
The openssl (aka node-openssl) NPM package through 2.0.0 was characterized as "a nonsense wrapper with no real purpose" by its author, and accepts an opts argument that contains a verb field (used for command execution). NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Remediation
References
https://gist.github.com/mcoimbra/b05a55a5760172dccaa0a827647ad63e
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/tree/main/malicious/npm
https://www.npmjs.com/package/openssl
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2012-0394 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.struts:struts2-core
CVE-2021-23639 Vulnerability in npm package md-to-pdf
CVE-2021-23663 Vulnerability in npm package sey
CVE-2020-26217 Vulnerability in maven package com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream
CVE-2016-10531 Vulnerability in maven package org.webjars.bower:marked