CVE-2019-20920
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Handlebars before 3.0.8 and 4.x before 4.5.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The lookup helper fails to properly validate templates, allowing attackers to submit templates that execute arbitrary JavaScript. This can be used to run arbitrary code on a server processing Handlebars templates or in a victim's browser (effectively serving as XSS).
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 3.19%• Percentile: 88%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-94•Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.
Affected Systems
- chainguard•code-server
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- chainguard•code-server-compat
< 0
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-19.1
all
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-19.2
all
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-19.3
all
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-fips-19.1
all
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-fips-19.2
all
- chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-assets-fips-19.3
all
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.3
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.4
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.5
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.6
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.7
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.10
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.11
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.3
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.4
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.5
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.6
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.7
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.8
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-18.9
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-19.0
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-19.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-19.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-19.3
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-19.4
all
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.10
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.11
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.3
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.4
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.5
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.6
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.7
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.8
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-18.9
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-19.0
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-19.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-19.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-19.3
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-assets-fips-19.4
all
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-doc-18.1
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-doc-18.2
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-doc-18.3
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References (8)
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1316
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1324
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HANDLEBARS-534478
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20920
- https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/156061eb7707575293613d7fdf90e2bdaac029ee
- https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/d54137810a49939fd2ad01a91a34e182ece4528e
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-20920