GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-vq33-26pr-r4h6 flattenizer vulnerable to prototype pollution
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-28279
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- flattenizer
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1321
- Reviewed
- 2024-04-01
Affected packages
• npm flattenizer: >= 0.0.5, < 1.1.1 → fixed in 1.1.1
Description
Overview
Prototype pollution vulnerability in ‘flattenizer’ versions 0.0.5 through 1.0.5 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.
Details
The NPM module 'flattenizer' can be abused by Prototype Pollution vulnerability since the function 'unflatten()' did not check for the type of object before assigning value to the property. Due to this flaw an attacker could create a non-existent property or able to manipulate the property which leads to Denial of Service or potentially Remote code execution.
PoC Details
There is no validation before assigning the property to check whether the assigned argument is the Object's own property or not, the property `polluted` will be directly be assigned thereby polluting the Object prototype. Later in the code, if there is a check to validate `polluted` the valued would be substituted as "true" as it had been polluted.
```js
var flattenizer = require("flattenizer")
flattenizer.unflatten({'__proto__.polluted': true});
console.log(polluted);
```
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-28279 Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'flattenizer' versions 0.0.5 through 1.0.5 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28279 advisory
- https://github.com/sahellebusch/flattenizer/pull/13 web
- https://github.com/sahellebusch/flattenizer/commit/3c6a6353df7c8879e931973b81a49a47f6c2b399 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210104205035/https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-28279 web