{"id":"CVE-2026-62681","aliases":["GHSA-fg9p-mrxr-hvq7"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62681","summary":"Orval: RCE via OpenAPI path -> unescaped request-URL template literal (backtick breakout)","details":"### Summary\n\nOrval emits the OpenAPI path into the generated request URL as a TEMPLATE LITERAL (`` `/users/...` ``) without escaping the backtick character. A path containing a backtick closes the template literal and injects a concatenation expression that is evaluated when the generated URL/request/key function is called, executing attacker-controlled code. Affects the axios, fetch, react-query, and swr clients. Verified on Orval 8.19.0; survives Orval's default OpenAPI validation.\n\n### Details\n\n```ts\n// generated URL builder (fetch client)\nreturn `/users/` + (globalThis.X = require(\"fs\").writeFileSync(\"/marker\",\"pwned\")) + `/list`;\n```\n\nThe backtick in the path terminates the `` `...` `` literal; `+ (<code>) +` runs as a live expression; a trailing backtick reopens a template literal so the file stays valid. The code runs whenever the generated request function, URL builder, or query-key function is called.\n\nThis is distinct from Orval's four published CVEs: CVE-2026-22785 (`summary` -> MCP server), CVE-2026-23947 / CVE-2026-25141 (`x-enumDescriptions`), and CVE-2026-24132 (`const` -> mock files). This is a different field (the route path) and a different sink (the request-URL template literal), which those advisories and their fixes do not cover.\n\n### PoC\n\n`reproduce.sh` (+ `make_spec.py`) attached: generates a fetch client with default validation, bundles it, calls the generated functions, and shows a marker file written. Verified on 8.19.0.\n\n### Impact\n\nCode execution in any environment that calls a client generated from an attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced OpenAPI description (developer, CI, or the running application). \n\n### Suggested fix\n\nEscape the path before emitting it into the URL template literal (escape backtick and `${`, or build the URL with an encoder that treats the path as data), and validate path characters.","published":"2026-08-19T17:31:02.756Z","modified":"2026-09-11T03:30:43.658355013Z","cvss":null,"epss":{"score":0.00664,"percentile":0.50019,"asOf":"2026-09-16"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"orval","fixedVersion":"8.21.0"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/commit/8ef1bfdf3f9bcaf9dabfbe2e42887f1c0e159ab6","label":"orval-labs/orval@8ef1bfd"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/releases/tag/v8.21.0"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/62xxx/CVE-2026-62681.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/security/advisories/GHSA-fg9p-mrxr-hvq7"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62681"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/commit/8ef1bfdf3f9bcaf9dabfbe2e42887f1c0e159ab6"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval/pull/3692"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/orval-labs/orval"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-11T03:30:43.658355013Z"}}