Improper Control of Generation of Code in doT

Description

The dot package v1.1.2 uses Function() to compile templates. This can be exploited by the attacker if they can control the given template or if they can control the value set on Object.prototype.

Recommendation

Update the dot package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 1.1.2
• Patched version(s): 1.1.3

References

• GHSA-297x-8xj4-vcxv
• hackerone.com
• CVE-2020-8141
• CWE-94
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in swagger-ui - CVE-2016-1000229
• Code injection in electerm - CVE-2020-23256
• happy-dom's `--disallow-code-generation-from-strings` is not sufficient for isolating untrusted JavaScript - CVE-2025-62410
• Improper Validation and Sanitization in url-parse - CVE-2020-8124

Tags:

npm

dot