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

CVE-2024-51757

High
9.8/10

Summary

The package happy-dom is a JavaScript implementation of a web browser without its graphical user interface, it may execute code on the host via a script tag. This would execute code in the user context of happy-dom. This issue affects versions 13.0.0 through 15.10.1. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • 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.

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