GHSA-4jrm-c32x-w4jf
convict vulnerable to Prototype Pollution
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
* An attacker can inject attributes that are used in other components
* An attacker can override existing attributes with ones that have incompatible type, which may lead to a crash.
The main use case of Convict is for handling server-side configurations written by the admins owning the servers, and not random users. So it's unlikely that an admin would deliberately sabotage their own server. Still a situation can happen where an admin not knowledgeable about JavaScript could be tricked by an attacker into writing the malicious JavaScript code into some config files.
### Patches
The problem is patched in `[email protected]`. Users should upgrade to `[email protected]`.
### Workarounds
No way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading
### References
https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/410
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/security/advisories/GHSA-4jrm-c32x-w4jf
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0163
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/410
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/commit/fb602fbe1e9f14f2e88ecb8179d0f76466d21ecb
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict