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Prototype Pollution in protobufjs

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 28, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 29, 2023

Package

npm protobufjs (npm)

Affected versions

>= 6.11.0, < 6.11.3
>= 6.10.0, < 6.10.3

Patched versions

6.11.3
6.10.3

Description

The package protobufjs is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution, which can allow an attacker to add/modify properties of the Object.prototype. Versions after and including 6.10.0 until 6.10.3 and after and including 6.11.0 until 6.11.3 are vulnerable.

This vulnerability can occur in multiple ways:

  1. by providing untrusted user input to util.setProperty or to ReflectionObject.setParsedOption functions
  2. by parsing/loading .proto files

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 27, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 28, 2022
Reviewed Jun 2, 2022
Last updated Nov 29, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25878

GHSA ID

GHSA-g954-5hwp-pp24

Source code

Credits

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