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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting static-eval package, versions <2.0.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    1.53% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:static-eval:20171016
  • published 18 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 16 Oct 2017
  • credit Matt Austin
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Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-16226 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade static-eval to version 2.0.0 or higher.

Overview

static-eval is a module to evaluate statically-analyzable expressions.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. If un-sanitized user input is passed to static-eval, it is possible to break out of the sandboxed instance, and execute arbitrary code from the standard library.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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