Vulnerability in wastemobile buildebooks

[ Description ]Official description

buildebooks before 0.2.2 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in lib/kindle.js that allows attackers to execute commands by supplying a crafted EPUB file name passed to kindlegen via child_process.exec. Attackers can craft a book project with a malicious front-matter filename or project folder name and kindle: true to execute OS commands as the user running buildebooks.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/wastemobile/buildebooks
• github.com/wastemobile/buildebooks/blob/7fc313485447d9359fb38fda3cbc2ed60ce69fe7/lib/ki…
• github.com/wastemobile/buildebooks/commit/123776c9ef61e8075ada2f7da2f7046f6a8078d9
• github.com/wastemobile/buildebooks/pull/12
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/buildebooks-before-0.2.2-os-command-injection-via-kindlege…