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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2024-21534

Severity High
Score 9.8/10

Summary

The package jsonpath-plus versions prior to 10.0.7 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the system by exploiting the unsafe default usage of vm in Node. Note: The unsafe behaviour is still available after applying the fix but is not turned on by default.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

Advisory Timeline

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