GHSA-97jv-c342-5xhc

FurqanSoftware/node-whois vulnerable to Prototype Pollution

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2020-36618

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	whois	< 2.13.6	2.13.6

Details

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

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Furqan node-whois. Affected is an unknown function of the file `index.coffee`. The manipulation leads to improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes ('prototype pollution'). It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is 46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216252.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36618 advisory
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/pull/105 web
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/commit/46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076 web
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois package
https://vuldb.com/?id.216252 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20220403104013/https://www.npmjs.com/package/whois web