Homepage
About Snyk

Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting js-yaml package, versions <3.13.1

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-JSYAML-174129
  • published 7 Apr 2019
  • disclosed 5 Apr 2019
  • credit Alex Kocharin
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 5 Apr 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade js-yaml to version 3.13.1 or higher.

Overview

js-yaml is a human-friendly data serialization language.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. When an object with an executable toString() property used as a map key, it will execute that function. This happens only for load(), which should not be used with untrusted data anyway. safeLoad() is not affected because it can't parse functions.