CVE-2021-23639: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

December 10, 2021 (updated December 14, 2021)

The package md-to-pdf is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to utilizing the library gray-matter to parse front matter content, without disabling the JS engine.

References

github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/commit/a716259c548c82fa1d3b14a3422e9100619d2d8a
github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/issues/99
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23639
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MDTOPDF-1657880

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