GHSA-fr76-2wp8-fp92

Insecure template handling in Express-handlebars

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-32820
Aliases
BIT-handlebars-2021-32820
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Express-handlebars is a Handlebars view engine for Express. Express-handlebars mixes pure template data with engine configuration options through the Express render API. More specifically, the layout parameter may trigger file disclosure vulnerabilities in downstream applications. This potential vulnerability is somewhat restricted in that only files with existing extentions (i.e. file.extension) can be included, files that lack an extension will have `.handlebars` appended to them. For complete details refer to the referenced GHSL-2021-018 report. Notes in documentation have been added to help users avoid this potential information exposure vulnerability. A fix is discussed in https://github.com/express-handlebars/express-handlebars/pull/163

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · express-handlebarsintroduced 0, fixed 5.3.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database