CVE-2021-21353

MEDIUM

Pug < 3.0.1 - Injection

Title source: rule

Description

Pug is an npm package which is a high-performance template engine. In pug before version 3.0.1, if a remote attacker was able to control the `pretty` option of the pug compiler, e.g. if you spread a user provided object such as the query parameters of a request into the pug template inputs, it was possible for them to achieve remote code execution on the node.js backend. This is fixed in version 3.0.1. This advisory applies to multiple pug packages including "pug", "pug-code-gen". pug-code-gen has a backported fix at version 2.0.3. This advisory is not exploitable if there is no way for un-trusted input to be passed to pug as the `pretty` option, e.g. if you compile templates in advance before applying user input to them, you do not need to upgrade.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 2 stars
by jinsu9758 · poc
https://github.com/jinsu9758/PUG-RCE-CVE-2021-21353-POC

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.0130
EPSS Percentile 79.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-74 CWE-94
Status published
Products (4)
npm/pug 0 - 3.0.1npm
npm/pug-code-gen 0 - 2.0.3npm
pugjs/pug < 3.0.1
pugjs/pug-code-gen < 2.0.3
Published Mar 03, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026