Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting jingo package, versions <1.9.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-JINGO-595966
  • published29 Jul 2020
  • disclosed29 Jul 2020
  • creditSnyk Security Team

Introduced: 29 Jul 2020

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade jingo to version 1.9.6 or higher.

Overview

jingo is a git based wiki engine written for node.js, with a decent design, a search capability and a good typography.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to the default usage of the function yaml.load() of the package js-yaml instead of its secure replacement , yaml.safeLoad().

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