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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-7789

It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.

MEDIUM 5.6EPSS 1.59%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.59%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

This affects the package node-notifier before 9.0.0. It allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on Linux machines due to the options params not being sanitised when being passed an array.

CVSS 3.1
5.6 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
1.59% probability · 75th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-78
Affected
node-notifier project/node-notifier
Source
report@snyk.io
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.59%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.