{"id":"CVE-2021-34083","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-34083","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:25:48.093Z","title":"Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format.","description":"Google-it is a Node.js package which allows its users to send search queries to Google and receive the results in a JSON format. When using the 'Open in browser' option in versions up to 1.6.2, google-it will unsafely concat the result's link retrieved from google to a shell command, potentially exposing the server to RCE.","published":"2022-06-02T14:15:29.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:55:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":["google-it project/google-it"],"epss":{"score":0.0211,"percentile":0.81664,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2021-4777","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/lib/googleIt.js#L59","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/PatNeedham/google-it/blob/v1.6.2/src/googleIt.js#L34","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-34083","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}