Thank you for research to discover and publish this, but I must say, that your title is a bit misleading, or frankly said just sensationalistic and technically wrong. What you describe in the article is simply a bad usage of the infamous `eval` function which is, as to its nature, the easiest way to allow remote code execution. This is covered in dozens of articles and is among the first things every Javascript developer should learn. But most of all the usage is NOT in Node.js itself but in a rather unpopular npm package that was not updated in 4 years and has a mere 11 dependents, according to npmjs.org This is a simple problem with all open source packages: everyone who thinks about using an open source third party dependency should review the source code before trusting it, if used in security context. This is why the `node-serialize` package has no serious dependants as everybody in their right mind would scan a serialization library for the unprotected usage of `eval`. So again, thanks for your work in discovering this, but please adapt the title to the facts! Hi Lukas, This blog post intent to cover deserialization bugs in a fairly new JavaScript environment, Node.js.

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As Node.js does not provide serialization/deserialization APIs, there is third party modules providing this functionality to Node.js. The issues discussed in the blog post is present in not just one library, but in other libraries like serialize-to-js as well. What you describe in the article is simply a bad usage of the infamous `eval` function which is, as to its nature, the easiest way to allow remote code execution. Software Mfj Multicom For Windows. This is covered in dozens of articles and is among the first things every Javascript developer should learn. This is not so simple and straightforward as that. The unserilalize()/deserialize() function provided by these modules are designed to convert strings to objects, which may contain functions inside them, but not to execute them. We are actually abusing the IIFE property to make this into a working exploit.

So it is not as simple as old school eval() where JavaScript code is passed into eval() resulting in code execution. The exploitation technique and payload is different here and is not covered anywhere as far as I know, please correct me if I am wrong. I am a security engineer myself.

I don’t know how many developers did a code review on Apache Commons, the Java library known for deserialization issues () before using it. It is not practical in real world for a developer to do code review and then use a library/module. It has to be the job of a security engineer/ consultant to do code review once the code is written and thats how I found this.