<p>Upgrade <code>pdfmake</code> to version 0.2.7 or higher.</p>

Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pdfmake Open this link in a new tab

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Snyk ID SNYK-JS-PDFMAKE-3160329
published 7 Dec 2022
disclosed 7 Dec 2022
credit Ryan Finn

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Introduced: 7 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-46161 Open this link in a new tab CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade pdfmake to version 0.2.7 or higher.

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

pdfmake is a Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Code Injection because it contains an unsafe evaluation of user-controlled input in the /pdf endpoint.

Note: Users are affected by this vulnerability only if using the dev-playground component of the library. This component is not bundled in any of the versions available on package managers.

Workaround

Users are advised to restrict access to trusted user input.

PoC

const {execSync} = require('node:child_process');
var out = execSync('cat /etc/passwd');
dd = {
    content: [
        out.toString()
        ]
}