Security Advisory

CVE-2026-76833

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-20 13:33:14
Last updated 2026-08-20 14:29:17
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score 8.4
State PUBLISHED

Description

@cgauge/yaml npm package contains an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript by embedding a custom !js YAML tag whose construct callback unconditionally calls eval() on attacker-supplied string values during document parsing. Any application parsing untrusted YAML input with this library exposes full Node.js runtime authority, including environment variable access, filesystem read/write, network access, and subprocess execution, with no safe-mode alternative or opt-out mechanism available.