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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mathjs package, versions <3.17.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.24% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:mathjs:20171118-1
  • published 28 Nov 2017
  • disclosed 18 Nov 2017
  • credit Masato Kinugawa
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Introduced: 18 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1001003 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade mathjs to version 3.17.0 or higher.

Overview

mathjs is an extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Forbidden properties like constructor could be replaced by using unicode characters when creating an object.

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