Handlebars Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2019-20920 - Vulnerability Database

Handlebars Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability - CVE-2019-20920

High
Reference: CVE-2019-20920
Title: Handlebars Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Vulnerability
Overview:

Handlebars before 3.0.8 and 4.x before 4.5.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The lookup helper fails to properly validate templates allowing attackers to submit templates that execute arbitrary JavaScript. This can be used to run arbitrary code on a server processing Handlebars templates or in a victim39s browser (effectively serving as XSS).