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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2024-21534 json

JSONPath Plus Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability

published 2024-10-11 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-pppg-cpfq-h7wr , EUVD-2024-3103

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.0%
EPSS 9.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All versions of the package jsonpath-plus are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can execute aribitrary code on the system by exploiting the unsafe default usage of vm in Node. **Note:** There were several attempts to fix it in versions [10.0.0-10.1.0](https://github.com/JSONPath-Plus/JSONPath/compare/v9.0.0...v10.1.0) but it could still be exploited using [different payloads](https://github.com/JSONPath-Plus/JSONPath/issues/226).

Patch / fix

  • npm jsonpath-plus 10.2.0
  • jsonpath-plus jsonpath 10.0.7

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-21534 updated cvss 9.8

jsonpath-plus: Remote Code Execution in jsonpath-plus via Improper Input Sanitization

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) odh-dashboard-container Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-dashboard-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Red Hat Product Security recommends updating the vulnerable software to the latest version.”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.6 rhdh 1.6.0-1745956724
    fixed: vendor fix “Red Hat Product Security recommends updating the vulnerable software to the latest version.” RHSA-2025:7626
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3 devspaces/code-rhel8 3.17-19, devspaces/dashboard-rhel8 3.17-25
    fixed: vendor fix “Red Hat Product Security recommends updating the vulnerable software to the latest version.” RHSA-2024:10236
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator Red Hat Developer Hub 1.6 rhdh 1.6.0-1745956395, rhdh 1.6.0-1745970106 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) odh-operator-container Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3 devspaces/udi-rhel8 3.17-9, devspaces/idea-rhel8 3.17-4, devspaces/server-rhel8 3.17-9, devspaces/traefik-rhel8 3.17-4, devspaces/configbump-rhel8 3.17-4, devspaces/imagepuller-rhel8 3.17-4, +4 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

9.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm jsonpath-plus
<10.2.0
10.2.0
maven org.webjars.npm:jsonpath-plus
<=6.0.1
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • n/a jsonpath-plus
  • n/a org.webjars.npm:jsonpath-plus
  • jsonpath-plus jsonpath

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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