JSONPath Plus Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability

Description

Versions of the package jsonpath-plus before 10.0.7 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can execute aribitrary code on the system by exploiting the unsafe default usage of vm in Node.

Note:

There were several attempts to fix it in versions 10.0.0-10.1.

Recommendation

Update the jsonpath-plus package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 10.2.0
• Patched version(s): 10.2.0

References

• GHSA-pppg-cpfq-h7wr
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2024-21534
• CWE-94
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• fast-xml-parser has RangeError DoS Numeric Entities Bug - CVE-2026-25128
• Valid ECDSA signatures erroneously rejected in Elliptic - CVE-2024-48948
• DOMPurify vulnerable to tampering by prototype polution - CVE-2024-48910
• cors-anywhere vulnerable to server-side request forgery - CVE-2020-36851

Tags:

npm

jsonpath-plus