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CVE-2021-42057 (GCVE-0-2021-42057)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 20:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:22
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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