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GHSA-c4gh-rv8h-q9vw Prompty: Arbitrary code execution via JavaScript frontmatter in TypeScript loader
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-53597
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- @prompty/core
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-17
Affected packages
• npm @prompty/core: >= 2.0.0-alpha.1, < 2.0.0-beta.3 → fixed in 2.0.0-beta.3
Description
Summary
The TypeScript Prompty loader used `gray-matter` without overriding executable frontmatter engines. `gray-matter` supports JavaScript frontmatter blocks such as `---js` and evaluates them while parsing. An attacker-controlled `.prompty` file could therefore execute arbitrary JavaScript during prompt loading.
Affected package
• npm `@prompty/core` v2 prerelease line: `>= 2.0.0-alpha.1 < 2.0.0-beta.3`
• Fixed in `@prompty/[email protected]`
The legacy v1 JavaScript runtime had a historical hardening change for this issue. During the v2 TypeScript runtime rebuild, the loader again called `gray-matter` directly and the vulnerable behavior was present in the v2 prerelease packages until `2.0.0-beta.3`.
Impact
Applications that load untrusted `.prompty` files, user-provided prompt paths, or prompt bundles from less-trusted locations could execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host Node.js process during frontmatter parsing.
Remediation
Upgrade `@prompty/core` to `2.0.0-beta.3` or later.
The fix explicitly overrides the `js` and `javascript` gray-matter engines and rejects JavaScript frontmatter in `.prompty` files. Prompty frontmatter is YAML-only; executable frontmatter is unsupported. A regression test now verifies that `---js` frontmatter is rejected and not evaluated.
Fix details
Fixed by commit `c27402da2487075be577f06aa79df627fb9d6853` and released via `typescript/2.0.0-beta.3`.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-53597 Prompty is a markdown file format (.prompty) for LLM prompts. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness