CVE-2022-39243
HIGHNuProcess 1.2.0-2.0.4 - Command Injection via NUL Character Bypass
Title source: llmDescription
NuProcess is an external process execution implementation for Java. In all the versions of NuProcess where it forks processes by using the JVM's Java_java_lang_UNIXProcess_forkAndExec method (1.2.0+), attackers can use NUL characters in their strings to perform command line injection. Java's ProcessBuilder isn't vulnerable because of a check in ProcessBuilder.start. NuProcess is missing that check. This vulnerability can only be exploited to inject command line arguments on Linux. Version 2.0.5 contains a patch. As a workaround, users of the library can sanitize command strings to remove NUL characters prior to passing them to NuProcess for execution.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/brettwooldridge/NuProcess/security/advisories/GHSA-cxgf-v2p8-7ph7
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/brettwooldridge/NuProcess/pull/143
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/brettwooldridge/NuProcess/commit/29bc09de561bf00ff9bf77123756363a9709f868
Scores
CVSS v3
8.4
EPSS
0.0113
EPSS Percentile
62.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-77
Status
published
Products (2)
com.zaxxer/nuprocess
1.2.0 - 2.0.5Maven
nuprocess_project/nuprocess
1.2.0 - 2.0.5
Published
Sep 26, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026