ajinabraham.njsscan.xml.xpathi_node.node_xpath_injection

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User controlled data in xpath.parse() can result in XPATH injection vulnerability.

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Defintion

rules:
  - id: node_xpath_injection
    patterns:
      - pattern-either:
          - pattern-inside: function ($REQ, $RES, ...) {...}
          - pattern-inside: function $FUNC($REQ, $RES, ...) {...}
          - pattern-inside: $X = function $FUNC($REQ, $RES, ...) {...}
          - pattern-inside: var $X = function $FUNC($REQ, $RES, ...) {...};
          - pattern-inside: $APP.$METHOD(..., function $FUNC($REQ, $RES, ...) {...})
      - pattern-either:
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ.$QUERY.$VAR ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ.$PARAM ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ.$PARAM["..."] ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ.$PARAM("...") ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ["..."] ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $REQ("...") ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ.$QUERY.$VAR ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ.$PARAM ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ.$PARAM["..."] ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ.$PARAM("...") ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ["..."] ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
          - pattern: |
              $INP = <... $REQ("...") ...>;
              ...
              $XPATH.parse(<... "=~/^[\/\/].+/" + $INP ...>, ...)
    message: User controlled data in xpath.parse() can result in XPATH injection
      vulnerability.
    languages:
      - javascript
    severity: ERROR
    metadata:
      owasp-web: a1
      cwe: cwe-643
      license: LGPL-3.0-or-later
      vulnerability_class:
        - Other