CVE-2017-5941: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

February 9, 2017 (updated March 1, 2017)

An issue was discovered in the node-serialize package for Node.js. Untrusted data passed into the unserialize() function can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution by passing a JavaScript Object with an Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE).

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5941

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