Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-15599

critical

CVE-2019-15599

Code Injection

Published Modified CWE 94
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by GHSA (high), Node.js Security WG (high).

Description

A Code Injection exists in tree-kill on Windows which allows a remote code execution when an attacker is able to control the input into the command.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmtree-kill1.2.2
npm::Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Grouptree-kill>=1.2.2

References

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