GHSA-x2w5-725j-gf2g
Prototype Pollution in convict
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://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-npm-convict/
* #384
* 3b86be087d8f14681a9c889d45da7fe3ad9cd880
* 1ea0ab19c5208f66509e1c43b0d0f21c1fd29b75
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
add your question as a comment in #384
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/security/advisories/GHSA-x2w5-725j-gf2g
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22143
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/pull/384
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/commit/3b86be087d8f14681a9c889d45da7fe3ad9cd880
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/blob/5eb1314f85346760a3c31cb14510f2f0af11d0d3/packages/convict/src/main.js%23L569
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/releases/tag/v6.2.2
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CONVICT-2340604
- https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-npm-convict