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Critical · 9.8 Public exploit CVE-2017-5941 EUVD-2018-0309GHSA-q4v7-4rhw-9hqm

Code Execution through IIFE in node-serialize

Published Feb 9, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: node-serialize Ecosystem: npm

Description

An issue was discovered in the node-serialize package 0.0.4 for Node.js. Untrusted data passed into the unserialize() function can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution by passing a JavaScript Object with an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 3

GitHub 7 repositories

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm node-serialize <= 0.0.4 — GHSA-q4v7-4rhw-9hqm

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