Obsidian Dataview vulnerable to code injection due to unsafe eval

ALTO 7.8CVE-2021-42057 · GHSA-xfg5-vrmc-24wc · Published 04/11/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

Em resumo

CVE-2021-42057 é uma vulnerabilidade ALTO (CVSS 7.8) que afeta obsidian dataview (obsidian), obsidian-dataview.
Chance de exploração nos próximos 30 dias (EPSS): 1.2%, maior que 69.3% das vulnerabilidades.
Correção: atualize para 0.4.13 ou posterior.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
obsidian dataview obsidian	`= 0.4.12≤ 0.4.11`	No fix yet
obsidian-dataview npm	`< 0.4.13`	`0.4.13`

Description

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.

NVD description

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42057 · ADVISORY
blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview · WEB
blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview · PACKAGE

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