CVE-2021-21353CWE-74

Remote code execution in pug

Medium · published March 3, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.8
EPSS
4%
Percentile
91.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Pug is an npm package which is a high-performance template engine. In pug before version 3.0.1, if a remote attacker was able to control the `pretty` option of the pug compiler, e.g. if you spread a user provided object such as the query parameters of a request into the pug template inputs, it was possible for them to achieve remote code execution on the node.js backend. This is fixed in version 3.0.1. This advisory applies to multiple pug packages including "pug", "pug-code-gen". pug-code-gen has a backported fix at version 2.0.3. This advisory is not exploitable if there is no way for un-trusted input to be passed to pug as the `pretty` option, e.g. if you compile templates in advance before applying user input to them, you do not need to upgrade.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04305 · 91.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-74 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Published
2021-03-03T01:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 MAR 01:50Z
    Remote code execution in pug
    cvelistv5