CVE-2021-42057: Obsidian Dataview

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Obsidian Dataview through 0.4.12-hotfix1 allows eval injection. The evalInContext function in executes user input, which allows an attacker to craft malicious Markdown files that will execute arbitrary code once opened. NOTE: 0.4.13 provides a mitigation for some use cases.

Affected products

• Obsidian Obsidian Dataview: up to and including 0.4.11; version 0.4.12 only

Published 2021-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.