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

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• JSONPath Plus allows Remote Code Execution - CVE-2025-1302
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Tags:

npm

jsonpath-plus