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CVE-2021-42057

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-11-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Obsidian Dataview through 0.4.12-hotfix1 allows eval injection. The evalInContext function in executes user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code once opened. NOTE: 0.4.13 provides a mitigation for some use cases.

Affected products

• Obsidian Dataview: through 0.4.11; 0.4.12, 0.4.12-hotfix1

References

• https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/615
• https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/615

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