All the vulnerabilities related to the version 3.2.0 of the package
Nunjucks autoescape bypass leads to cross site scripting
In Nunjucks versions prior to version 3.2.4, it was possible to bypass the restrictions which are provided by the autoescape functionality. If there are two user-controlled parameters on the same line used in the views, it was possible to inject cross site scripting payloads using the backslash \
character.
If the user-controlled parameters were used in the views similar to the following:
<script>
let testObject = { lang: '{{ lang }}', place: '{{ place }}' };
</script>
It is possible to inject XSS payload using the below parameters:
https://<application-url>/?lang=jp\&place=};alert(document.domain)//
The issue was patched in version 3.2.4.
Uncontrolled resource consumption in braces
The NPM package braces
fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In lib/parse.js,
if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which will cause the program to start allocating heap memory without freeing it at any moment of the loop. Eventually, the JavaScript heap limit is reached, and the program will crash.
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in micromatch
The NPM package micromatch
prior to version 4.0.8 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). The vulnerability occurs in micromatch.braces()
in index.js
because the pattern .*
will greedily match anything. By passing a malicious payload, the pattern matching will keep backtracking to the input while it doesn't find the closing bracket. As the input size increases, the consumption time will also increase until it causes the application to hang or slow down. There was a merged fix but further testing shows the issue persisted prior to https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/pull/266. This issue should be mitigated by using a safe pattern that won't start backtracking the regular expression due to greedy matching.