GHSA-rc77-xxq6-4mffCriticalCVSS 9.8
Command Injection in hot-formula-parser
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Versions of hot-formula-parser prior to 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package fails to sanitize values passed to the parse function and concatenates it in an eval call. If a value of the formula is supplied by user-controlled input it may allow attackers to run arbitrary commands in the server.
Parsing the following formula creates a test file in the present directory:
"SUM([(function(){require('child_process').execSync('touch test')})(),2])"
Recommendation
Upgrade to version 3.0.1 or later.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/hot-formula-parser:< 3.0.1
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6836
- https://github.com/handsontable/formula-parser/pull/58
- https://github.com/handsontable/formula-parser/commit/396b089738d4bf30eb570a4fe6a188affa95cd5e
- https://blog.truesec.com/2020/01/17/reverse-shell-through-a-node-js-math-parser/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1439
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rc77-xxq6-4mff