Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting front-matter package, versions <4.0.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
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- published 19 May 2020
- disclosed 14 May 2020
- credit peterbe
How to fix?
Upgrade front-matter
to version 4.0.1 or higher.
Overview
front-matter is a package that extracts meta data (front-matter) from documents.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution due to the default usage of the function yaml.load()
of the package js-yaml instead of its secure replacement , yaml.safeLoad()
.