CVE-2021-21372

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.4.6+really1.4.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.4.6+really1.4.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.4.6+really1.4.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.4.6+really1.4.2-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21372

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.