CVE-2026-33940
HIGH(8.1)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 8.1 — Hoch
EPSS-Score
1%
Exploit-Wahrscheinlichkeit (30 Tage)
CVSS Score
8.1
Technische Schwere
Beschreibung
Handlebars provides the power necessary to let users build semantic templates. In versions 4.0.0 through 4.7.8, a crafted object placed in the template context can bypass all conditional guards in `resolvePartial()` and cause `invokePartial()` to return `undefined`. The Handlebars runtime then treats the unresolved partial as a source that needs to be compiled, passing the crafted object to `env.compile()`. Because the object is a valid Handlebars AST containing injected code, the generated JavaScript executes arbitrary commands on the server. The attack requires the adversary to control a value that can be returned by a dynamic partial lookup. Version 4.7.9 fixes the issue. Some workarounds are available. First, use the runtime-only build (`require('handlebars/runtime')`). Without `compile()`, the fallback compilation path in `invokePartial` is unreachable. Second, sanitize context data before rendering: Ensure no value in the context is a non-primitive object that could be passed to a dynamic partial. Third, avoid dynamic partial lookups (`{{> (lookup ...)}}`) when context data is user-controlled.
Referenzen
- https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/68d8df5a88e0a26fe9e6084c...
- https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/releases/tag/v4.7.9
- https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/security/advisories/GHSA-xhpv-h...
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10175
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34342
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33940
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452521
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-33940.json