There is a vulnerability in Paginator which makes it susceptible to Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks via input parameters to the paginate() function.

Impact

There is a vulnerability in Paginator which makes it susceptible to Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks via input parameters to the paginate() function. This will potentially affect all current users of Paginator prior to version >= 1.0.0.

Patches

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.0.0 and all users should upgrade to this version immediately. Note that this patched version uses a dependency that requires an Elixir version >=1.5.

Credits

Thank you to Peter Stöckli.

References

• GHSA-w98m-2xqg-9cvj
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15150
• duffelhq/paginator@bf45e92
• https://github.com/duffelhq/paginator/blob/ccf0f37fa96347cc8c8a7e9eb2c64462cec4b2dc/README.md#security-considerations
• https://hex.pm/packages/paginator