{"id":75353,"date":"2026-01-01T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68619-signal-k-server-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution-via-malicious-npm-package\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:15:53","slug":"cve-2025-68619-signal-k-server-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution-via-malicious-npm-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68619-signal-k-server-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution-via-malicious-npm-package\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-68619 &#8211; Signal K Server Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Malicious npm Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68619<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 1, 2026, 7:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 9\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Signal K Server is a server application that runs on a central hub in a boat. Versions prior to 2.19.0 of the appstore interface allow administrators to install npm packages through a REST API endpoint. While the endpoint validates that the package name exists in the npm registry as a known plugin or webapp, the version parameter accepts arbitrary npm version specifiers including URLs. npm supports installing packages from git repositories, GitHub shorthand syntax, and HTTP\/HTTPS URLs pointing to tarballs. When npm installs a package, it can automatically execute any `postinstall` script defined in `package.json`, enabling arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability exists because npm&#8217;s version specifier syntax is extremely flexible, and the SignalK code passes the version parameter directly to npm without sanitization. An attacker with admin access can install a package from an attacker-controlled source containing a malicious `postinstall` script. Version 2.19.0 contains a patch for the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 7.3 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68619 Published : Jan. 1, 2026, 7:15 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 9\u00a0minutes ago Description : Signal K Server is a server application that runs on a central hub in a boat. Versions prior to 2.19.0 of the appstore interface allow administrators to install npm packages through a REST API endpoint. While the endpoint &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}