GHSA-pv8x-p9hq-j328

Arbitrary Code Execution in mathjs

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2017-1001003

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	mathjs	< 3.17.0	3.17.0

Details

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

math.js before 3.17.0 had an issue where private properties such as a constructor could be replaced by using unicode characters when creating an object. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 3.17.0 or later.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1001003 advisory
https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs/commit/a60f3c8d9dd714244aed7a5569c3dccaa3a4e761 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pv8x-p9hq-j328 advisory
https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs/blob/master/HISTORY.md#2017-11-18-version-3170 web
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/551 web