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CVE-2024-40453 (GCVE-0-2024-40453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-21 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-23 16:42
VLAI
Summary
squirrellyjs squirrelly v9.0.0 and fixed in v.9.0.1 was discovered to contain a code injection vulnerability via the component options.varName.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-23 16:36 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
squirrelly squirrelly Affected: 9.0.0
    cpe:2.3:a:squirrelly:squirrelly:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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