CVE-2018-3772: Whereis Project Whereis

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Concatenating unsanitized user input in the `whereis` npm module < 0.4.1 allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The `whereis` module is deprecated and it is recommended to use the `which` npm module instead.

Affected products

• Whereis Project Whereis: before 0.4.1 (fixed in 0.4.1)

Published 2018-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.