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CVE-2021-32831: Code injection in total.js

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Total.js framework (npm package total.js) is a framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC. In total.js framework before version 3.4.9, calling the utils.set function with user-controlled values leads to code-injection. This can cause a variety of impacts that include arbitrary code execution. This is fixed in version 3.4.9.

Affected products

• total.js: before 3.4.9 — fixed in 3.4.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: total.js 3.4.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/e644167d5378afdc45cb0156190349b2c07ef235/changes.txt#L11
• https://github.com/totaljs/framework/commit/887b0fa9e162ef7a2dd9cec20a5ca122726373b3
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-066-totaljs-totaljs/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/total.js
• https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/e644167d5378afdc45cb0156190349b2c07ef235/changes.txt#L11
• https://github.com/totaljs/framework/commit/887b0fa9e162ef7a2dd9cec20a5ca122726373b3
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-066-totaljs-totaljs/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/total.js

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