cve-2023-24538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-06 15:50
Modified
2024-11-15 13:08
Severity ?
Summary
Templates do not properly consider backticks (`) as Javascript string delimiters, and do not escape them as expected. Backticks are used, since ES6, for JS template literals. If a template contains a Go template action within a Javascript template literal, the contents of the action can be used to terminate the literal, injecting arbitrary Javascript code into the Go template. As ES6 template literals are rather complex, and themselves can do string interpolation, the decision was made to simply disallow Go template actions from being used inside of them (e.g. "var a = {{.}}"), since there is no obviously safe way to allow this behavior. This takes the same approach as github.com/google/safehtml. With fix, Template.Parse returns an Error when it encounters templates like this, with an ErrorCode of value 12. This ErrorCode is currently unexported, but will be exported in the release of Go 1.21. Users who rely on the previous behavior can re-enable it using the GODEBUG flag jstmpllitinterp=1, with the caveat that backticks will now be escaped. This should be used with caution.
References
security@golang.orghttps://go.dev/cl/482079Patch
security@golang.orghttps://go.dev/issue/59234Issue Tracking, Patch
security@golang.orghttps://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Xdv6JL9ENs8Mailing List
security@golang.orghttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1703Vendor Advisory
security@golang.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/cl/482079Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://go.dev/issue/59234Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Xdv6JL9ENs8Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1703Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241115-0007/
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