Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting pug Open this link in a new tab package, versions <3.0.1
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JS-PUG-1071616
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published
1 Mar 2021
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disclosed
10 Feb 2021
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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.