GHSA-8gwj-8hxc-285w

Prototype Pollution in json-ptr

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2021-23509

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	json-ptr	< 3.0.0	3.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

This affects the package `json-ptr` before `3.0.0`. A type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypass of CVE-2020-7766 when the user-provided keys used in the pointer parameter are arrays.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23509 advisory
https://github.com/flitbit/json-ptr/pull/42 web
https://github.com/flitbit/json-ptr/commit/5dc458fbad1c382a2e3ca6d62e66ede3d92849ca web
https://github.com/flitbit/json-ptr package
https://github.com/flitbit/json-ptr%23security-vulnerabilities-resolved web
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSONPTR-1577291 web