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cruddl vulnerable to ArangoDB Query Language (AQL) injection through flexSearch

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 8, 2022 in AEB-labs/cruddl • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

npm cruddl (npm)

Affected versions

>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.2
>= 1.1.0, < 2.7.0

Patched versions

3.0.2
2.7.0

Description

Impact

If a vunerable version of cruddl is used to generate a schema that uses @flexSearchFulltext, users of that schema may be able to inject arbitrary AQL queries that will be forwarded to and executed by ArangoDB.

Schemas that do not use @flexSearchFulltext are not affected.

The attacker needs to have READ permission to at least one root entity type that has @flexSearchFulltext enabled.

Patches

The issue has been fixed in version 3.0.2 and in version 2.7.0 of cruddl.

Workarounds

Users can temporarily remove @flexSearchFulltext from their schemas before they can update cruddl.

For more information

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References

@Yogu Yogu published to AEB-labs/cruddl Sep 8, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 8, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 16, 2022
Reviewed Sep 16, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.222%
(61st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-36084

GHSA ID

GHSA-qm4w-4995-vg7f

Source code

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