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CVE-2025-12735 (GCVE-0-2025-12735)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-05 00:22 – Updated: 2025-11-22 23:45
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Summary
The expr-eval library is a JavaScript expression parser and evaluator designed to safely evaluate mathematical expressions with user-defined variables. However, due to insufficient input validation, an attacker can pass a crafted context object or use MEMBER of the context object into the evaluate() function and trigger arbitrary code execution.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| silentmatt | expr-eval |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.0.2
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Credits
This issue was reported by Jangwoo Choe (UKO)
Patch validation assistance provided by GitHub user huydoppaz.
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