CVE-2021-32819

high

Description

Squirrelly is a template engine implemented in JavaScript that works out of the box with ExpressJS. Squirrelly mixes pure template data with engine configuration options through the Express render API. By overwriting internal configuration options remote code execution may be triggered in downstream applications. This issue is fixed in version 9.0.0. For complete details refer to the referenced GHSL-2021-023.

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-023-squirrelly/

https://github.com/squirrellyjs/squirrelly/pull/254

https://github.com/squirrellyjs/squirrelly/commit/dca7a1e7ee91d8a6ffffb655f3f15647486db9da

https://github.com/squirrellyjs/squirrelly/commit/c12418a026f73df645ba927fd29358efe02fed1e

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-14

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.59844