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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

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
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.188%
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25878

GHSA ID

GHSA-g954-5hwp-pp24

Source code

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