Potential Script Injection Affecting syntax-error package, versions < 1.1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
25.35% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:syntax-error:20140715
  • published15 Jul 2014
  • disclosed15 Jul 2014
  • creditCal Leeming

Introduced: 15 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-7192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Update to version 1.1.1 or greater. If this is being used in conjunction with browserify, update browserify to 4.2.1 or greater.

Overview

There was a security vulnerability where a malicious file could execute code when browserified. Make sure your installation of browserify is using syntax-error@1.1.1 or later.

Source: Node Security Project

Details

The vulnerability involves breaking out of Function(), which was used to check syntax for more informative errors. In node 0.10, Function() seems to be implemented in terms of eval(), so malicious code can execute even if the function returned by Function() was never called. node 0.11 does not appear to be vulnerable.

Thanks to [Cal Leeming] (cal@iops.io) for discovering and disclosing this bug!

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