Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting pug package, versions <3.0.1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
4.07% (93rd
percentile)
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- published 1 Mar 2021
- disclosed 10 Feb 2021
- credit CykuTW
Introduced: 10 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-21353 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade pug to version 3.0.1 or higher.
Overview
pug is an A clean, whitespace-sensitive template language for writing HTML
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). If a remote attacker was able to control the pretty option of the pug compiler, e.g. if you spread a user provided object such as the query parameters of a request into the pug template inputs, it was possible for them to achieve remote code execution on the node.js backend.
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CVSS Scores
version 3.1