html/template: disallow actions in JS template literals

ECMAScript 6 introduced template literals[0][1] which are delimited with
backticks. These need to be escaped in a similar fashion to the
delimiters for other string literals. Additionally template literals can
contain special syntax for string interpolation.

There is no clear way to allow safe insertion of actions within JS
template literals, as handling (JS) string interpolation inside of these
literals is rather complex. As such we've chosen to simply disallow
template actions within these template literals.

A new error code is added for this parsing failure case, errJsTmplLit,
but it is unexported as it is not backwards compatible with other minor
release versions to introduce an API change in a minor release. We will
export this code in the next major release.

The previous behavior (with the cavet that backticks are now escaped
properly) can be re-enabled with GODEBUG=jstmpllitinterp=1.

This change subsumes CL471455.

Thanks to Sohom Datta, Manipal Institute of Technology, for reporting
this issue.

Fixes CVE-2023-24538
Fixes #59234

[0] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-expressions.html#sec-template-literals
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals

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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/html/template/error.go b/src/html/template/error.go
index 5c51f772cb..d7d6f5b3ab 100644
--- a/src/html/template/error.go
+++ b/src/html/template/error.go
@@ -214,6 +214,19 @@ const (
 	//   pipeline occurs in an unquoted attribute value context, "html" is
 	//   disallowed. Avoid using "html" and "urlquery" entirely in new templates.
 	ErrPredefinedEscaper
+
+	// errJSTmplLit: "... appears in a JS template literal"
+	// Example:
+	//     <script>var tmpl = `{{.Interp}`</script>
+	// Discussion:
+	//   Package html/template does not support actions inside of JS template
+	//   literals.
+	//
+	// TODO(rolandshoemaker): we cannot add this as an exported error in a minor
+	// release, since it is backwards incompatible with the other minor
+	// releases. As such we need to leave it unexported, and then we'll add it
+	// in the next major release.
+	errJSTmplLit
 )
 
 func (e *Error) Error() string {