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Obsidian Dataview vulnerable to code injection due to unsafe eval

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 19, 2023

Package

npm obsidian-dataview (npm)

Affected versions

<= 0.4.12-hotfix1

Patched versions

0.4.13

Description

Obsidian Dataview through 0.4.12-hotfix1 allows eval injection. The evalInContext function in executes user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code once opened. NOTE: 0.4.13 provides a mitigation for some use cases.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 4, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Oct 19, 2023
Reviewed Oct 19, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.155%
(53rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-42057

GHSA ID

GHSA-xfg5-vrmc-24wc

Source code

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