blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview · Security

Obsidian Dataview vulnerable to code injection due to unsafe eval

GHSA ID
GHSA-xfg5-vrmc-24wc
CVE ID
CVE-2021-42057
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
7.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Obsidian Dataview through 0.4.12-hotfix1 allows eval injection. The evalInContext function in executes user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code once opened. NOTE: 0.4.13 provides a mitigation for some use cases.

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