Description
Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs.`lassoAppend' function accepts 3 arguments and internally invokes `push` function on the 1st argument specifying array consisting of 2nd and 3rd arguments as `push` call argument. The type of the 1st argument is supposed to be an array, but it's not enforced. This makes it possible to specify any object with a `push` function as the 1st argument, `push` function can be set to any function that can be access via `event.view` (no all such functions can be exploited due to invalid context or signature, but some can, e.g. `console.log`). The issue is that`lassoAppend` doesn't enforce proper types of its arguments. This issue opens various XSS vectors, but exact impact and severity depends on the environment (e.g. Core JS `setImmediate` polyfill basically allows `eval`-like functionality). This issue was patched in 5.23.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vega | vega | < 5.23.0 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | vega.js | 5.25.0+ds+~cs5.3.0-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | vega.js | 5.25.0+ds+~cs5.3.0-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | vega.js | No fix yet | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| npm | vega | < 5.23.0 | 5.23.0 | GHSA-w5m3-xh75-mp55 |
| npm | vega-functions | < 5.13.1 | 5.13.1 | GHSA-w5m3-xh75-mp55 |