GHSA-mf6x-hrgr-658f

Eta vulnerable to Code Injection via templates rendered with user-defined data

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-25967

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	eta	< 2.0.0	2.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Versions of the package eta before 2.0.0 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) by overwriting template engine configuration variables with view options received from The Express render API. **Note:** This is exploitable only for users who are rendering templates with user-defined data.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25967 advisory
https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/commit/5651392462ee0ff19d77c8481081a99e5b9138dd web
https://github.com/eta-dev/eta package
https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/compile-string.ts%23L21 web
https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/file-handlers.ts%23L182 web
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ETA-2936803 web