CVE-2025-12735 (GCVE-0-2025-12735)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-05 00:22
Modified
2025-11-08 00:11
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CWE
Summary
The expr-eval library is a JavaScript expression parser and evaluator designed to safely evaluate mathematical expressions with user-defined variables. However, due to insufficient input validation, an attacker can pass a crafted variables object into the evaluate() function and trigger arbitrary code execution.
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silentmatt expr-eval Version: 0   ≤ 2.0.2
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