Security advisory

{
  "id": "00e5494ceb553bc911c26e3bbf0f1a280ab8f8d78984b435c9e6760fa0ffa308",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29078",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2022-29078",
    "summary": "The ejs (aka Embedded JavaScript templates) package 3.1.6 for Node.js allows server-side template injection in settings[view options][outputFunctionName]. This is parsed as an internal option, and overwrites the outputFunctionName option with an arbitrary OS command (which is executed upon template compilation).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-29078",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-29078",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-29078",
        "GHSA-phwq-j96m-2c2q"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mde/ejs",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "80bf3d7dcc20dffa38686a58b4e0ba70d5cac8a1"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "80bf3d7dcc20dffa38686a58b4e0ba70d5cac8a1"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ejs:ejs:3.1.6:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.1.6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.1.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.1.6",
            "v3.1.6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-29078.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:40.411369650Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://eslam.io/posts/ejs-server-side-template-injection-rce/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29078.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29078",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220804-0001/",
        "https://github.com/mde/ejs/releases"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29078.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-29078",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 507918,
  "published_at": "2022-04-25T14:13:32+00:00"
}