Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting hot-formula-parser package, versions <3.0.1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.58% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-HOTFORMULAPARSER-541328
- published 10 Jan 2020
- disclosed 18 Dec 2019
- credit Alexander Andersson
Introduced: 18 Dec 2019
CVE-2020-6836 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade hot-formula-parser to version 3.0.1 or higher.
Overview
hot-formula-parser is a Parser class that evaluates excel and mathematical formulas.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. The package doesn't sanitize values passed to the parse function and concatenates it in an eval call.
PoC
SUM([(function(){require('child_process').execSync('touch test')})(),2])
References
CVSS Scores
version 3.1