GHSA-vx5c-87qx-cv6c

Arbitrary Code Execution in mathjs

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2017-1001002

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 arbitrary code execution in the JavaScript engine. Creating a typed function with JavaScript code in the name could result arbitrary execution. ## Recommendation Update 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-2017-1001002 advisory
https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs/commit/8d2d48d81b3c233fb64eb2ec1d7a9e1cf6a55a90 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx5c-87qx-cv6c advisory
https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs/blob/master/HISTORY.md#2017-11-18-version-3170 web
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/552 web