Workspace-admin code execution via unescaped environment variables
Published Mar 27, 2026 · Updated Mar 27, 2026
Code injection in the NativeTS executor in Windmill before 1.664.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in workspace scripts. The executor in backend/windmill-worker/src/worker.rs interpolates each environment-variable value into a single-quoted JavaScript preamble without escaping quotes, allowing a value to terminate the literal and become code. Workspace-admin access is required; injected code runs as each NativeTS script owner and can read that user's token, outputs, data, and worker files.
Summary
What happened
Code injection in the NativeTS executor in Windmill before 1.664.0 allows remote authenticated users to execute JavaScript in workspace scripts. The executor in backend/windmill-worker/src/worker.rs interpolates each environment-variable value into a single-quoted JavaScript preamble without escaping quotes, allowing a value to terminate the literal and become code. Workspace-admin access is required; injected code runs as each NativeTS script owner and can read that user's token, outputs, data, and worker files.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-33881
- Published
- Mar 27, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Windmill Labs
- Product
- Windmill
- Classifications
- CWE-94, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Mar 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 1.664.0
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