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CVE-2022-25967

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Versions of the package eta before 2.0.0 are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) by overwriting template engine configuration variables with view options received from The Express render API. **Note:** This is exploitable only for users who are rendering templates with user-defined data.

Affected products

• eta: before 2.0.0 — fixed in 2.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: eta 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/compile-string.ts%23L21
• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/file-handlers.ts%23L182
• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/commit/5651392462ee0ff19d77c8481081a99e5b9138dd
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ETA-2936803
• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/compile-string.ts%23L21
• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/blob/9c8e4263d3a559444a3881a85c1607bf344d0b28/src/file-handlers.ts%23L182
• https://github.com/eta-dev/eta/commit/5651392462ee0ff19d77c8481081a99e5b9138dd
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ETA-2936803
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ETA-2936803

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