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AST Injection, Prototype Pollution to RCE

Prototype pollution in a Node.js application can insert nodes into the abstract syntax tree that a template engine passes from parser to compiler. Handlebars and Pug then compile attacker-supplied AST fragments without revalidating them, so the polluted properties become arbitrary code in the generated template function and give remote code execution.

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posix
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POSIX
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Injection

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