GHSA-p4cg-3328-rvfg
Orval: Import-time RCE via query-parameter default -> zod module-level template literal
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
Orval's zod schema generation emits the **query-parameter** `default` value as a module-level template literal
(`export const …Default = `<default>`;`) without escaping `${` or the backtick. A default of the form
`v${<code>}w` injects a live JavaScript expression evaluated when the generated zod schema module is
imported, executing attacker-controlled code at import — no request or function call needed. Verified
on Orval 8.19.0; survives default OpenAPI validation.
### Details
```ts
export const …Default = `v${globalThis.ORVPWN()}w`; // ${...} = arbitrary JS expression, runs at import
```
Malicious input: a query parameter with a `default` of `v${<attacker JS>}w`. `${...}` permits any JS expression.
Note: this is one of several `default`-bearing positions that reach the same unescaped zod
template-literal sink; a single fix (escape `default` values) closes all of them, and a CNA may choose
to consolidate the related reports.
### PoC
`reproduce.sh` (+ `make_spec.py`) attached: generates the zod schema with default validation, bundles
it, imports it, and shows a marker written at import. Verified on 8.19.0.
### Impact
Code execution at import in any application that imports a zod schema module generated from an
attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced OpenAPI description.
### Suggested fix
Emit `default` values via a proper string-literal encoder (JSON.stringify, or escape backtick and `${`
if a template literal must be used); never interpolate a spec value into a template literal. Apply to
every `default` position.
[maintainer-report.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29399067/maintainer-report.txt)
[make_spec.py](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29399068/make_spec.py)
[reproduce.sh](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/29399069/reproduce.sh)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/security/advisories/GHSA-p4cg-3328-rvfg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72716
- https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/pull/3692
- https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/commit/8ef1bfdf3f9bcaf9dabfbe2e42887f1c0e159ab6
- https://github.com/orval-labs/orval
- https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/releases/tag/v8.21.0