CouchAuth has a Server-Side Template Injection vulnerability in its email functionality

Description

A host header injection vulnerability exists in the NPM package of perfood/couch-auth <= 0.21.2. By sending a specially crafted host header in the email change confirmation request, it is possible to trigger a SSTI which can be leveraged to run limited commands or leak server-side information.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.21.2

References

• GHSA-r385-c5fc-x56c
• CVE-2024-57177
• CWE-1336
• CWE-74
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Strapi plugins vulnerable to Server-Side Template Injection and Remote Code Execution in the Users-Permissions Plugin - @strapi/plugin-email - CVE-2023-22621
• @perfood/couch-auth has a host header injection vulnerability - CVE-2025-70948
• Parse Server has a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via Unescaped Mustache Template Variables - CVE-2025-68115
• Server-Side Template Injection in formio - CVE-2020-28246

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npm

@perfood/couch-auth