9.8
CRITICAL
CVE-2023-29453
Go Templates Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 12, 2023, 6:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 24, 2023, 2:50 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-29453 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Zabbix zabbix
2 Zabbix zabbix-agent2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-23388 Vendor Advisory

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Oct. 24, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-23388 No Types Assigned https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-23388 Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-94
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix-agent2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 up to (excluding) 5.0.35 *cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix-agent2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.0.0 up to (excluding) 6.0.18 *cpe:2.3:a:zabbix:zabbix-agent2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.4.0 up to (excluding) 6.4.3
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.18 }} 0.08%

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0.56342

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