CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-21353

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Mar 03, 2021 | Modified: Mar 09, 2021
CVSS 3.x
9
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Pug is an npm package which is a high-performance template engine. In pug before version 3.0.1, if a remote attacker was able to control the pretty option of the pug compiler, e.g. if you spread a user provided object such as the query parameters of a request into the pug template inputs, it was possible for them to achieve remote code execution on the node.js backend. This is fixed in version 3.0.1. This advisory applies to multiple pug packages including pug, pug-code-gen. pug-code-gen has a backported fix at version 2.0.3. This advisory is not exploitable if there is no way for un-trusted input to be passed to pug as the pretty option, e.g. if you compile templates in advance before applying user input to them, you do not need to upgrade.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pug Pugjs * 3.0.1 (excluding)
Pug-code-gen Pugjs * 2.0.3 (excluding)
Pug-code-gen Pugjs 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References