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CVE-2026-116576

HIGH 7.8

systeminformation: Windows command injection in services() through Unicode quotation marks

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

systeminformation is a System and OS information library for node.js. Prior to 5.33.16, services() in lib/processes.js inserts a caller-supplied service name into a PowerShell Get-CimInstance filter after processing it with sanitizeShellString() in lib/util.js. On Windows, the sanitizer removes ASCII quotes but permits Unicode quotation marks that PowerShell accepts as string delimiters, allowing crafted input to terminate the filter and place a PowerShell expression in the command executed by util.powerShell(). The expression runs with the Node.js process account's permissions and may read or change accessible files, alter application data, or disrupt the service. The package does not expose a network service itself, so remote reachability depends on a consuming application forwarding attacker-controlled input to services() or getDynamicData(). This issue is fixed in version 5.33.16.

CWE CWE-78
Vendor sebhildebrandt
Product systeminformation
Published Oct 26, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

sebhildebrandt / systeminformation
< 5.33.16

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/security/advisories/GHSA-3f7j-7jwc-fxfj github.com: https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/commit/5014c6d25cfce7363b937977327baa853cdba0bf github.com: https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/releases/tag/v5.33.16