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GHSA-fg9p-mrxr-hvq7

Orval: RCE via OpenAPI path -> unescaped request-URL template literal (backtick breakout)

Quick fix

GHSA-fg9p-mrxr-hvq7 — orval: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install orval@8.21.0

Details

### Summary

Orval emits the OpenAPI path into the generated request URL as a TEMPLATE LITERAL (`` `/users/...` ``) without escaping the backtick character. A path containing a backtick closes the template literal and injects a concatenation expression that is evaluated when the generated URL/request/key function is called, executing attacker-controlled code. Affects the axios, fetch, react-query, and swr clients. Verified on Orval 8.19.0; survives Orval's default OpenAPI validation.

### Details

```ts // generated URL builder (fetch client) return `/users/` + (globalThis.X = require("fs").writeFileSync("/marker","pwned")) + `/list`; ```

The backtick in the path terminates the `` `...` `` literal; `+ (<code>) +` runs as a live expression; a trailing backtick reopens a template literal so the file stays valid. The code runs whenever the generated request function, URL builder, or query-key function is called.

This is distinct from Orval's four published CVEs: CVE-2026-22785 (`summary` -> MCP server), CVE-2026-23947 / CVE-2026-25141 (`x-enumDescriptions`), and CVE-2026-24132 (`const` -> mock files). This is a different field (the route path) and a different sink (the request-URL template literal), which those advisories and their fixes do not cover.

### PoC

`reproduce.sh` (+ `make_spec.py`) attached: generates a fetch client with default validation, bundles it, calls the generated functions, and shows a marker file written. Verified on 8.19.0.

### Impact

Code execution in any environment that calls a client generated from an attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced OpenAPI description (developer, CI, or the running application).

### Suggested fix

Escape the path before emitting it into the URL template literal (escape backtick and `${`, or build the URL with an encoder that treats the path as data), and validate path characters.

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Affected packages

npm/orval
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 8.21.0
Fixnpm install orval@8.21.0

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