CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-23438

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2021-09-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-843

Description

This affects the package mpath before 0.8.4. A type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypass of CVE-2018-16490. In particular, the condition ignoreProperties.indexOf(parts[i]) !== -1 returns -1 if parts[i] is ['__proto__']. This is because the method that has been called if the input is an array is Array.prototype.indexOf() and not String.prototype.indexOf(). They behave differently depending on the type of the input.

Affected configurations

• mpath project mpath (< 0.8.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type weakness

References