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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1wcXdjLTN2aHctcWN2cc4AAnAr
shvl vulnerable to prototype pollution
Overview
Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'shvl' versions 1.0.0 through 2.0.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.
Details
The NPM module 'shvl' can be abused by Prototype Pollution vulnerability since the function 'set()' 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
The 'set()' function accepts four arguments object, path, val, obj
. Due to the absence of validation, at values passed into path, val
arguments, an attacker can supply a malicious value by adjusting the path
value to include the __proto__
property. Since there is no validation before assigning property to check whether the assigned path
is the Object's own property or not, the property isAdmin
will be directly be assigned to the empty obj({}) thereby polluting the Object prototype. Later in the code, if there is a check to validate isAdmin
the valued would be substituted as "true" as it had been polluted.
const shvl = require('shvl');
var obj = {}
console.log("Before : " + obj.isAdmin);
shvl.set(obj, '__proto__.isAdmin', true);
console.log("After : " + obj.isAdmin);
Affected Environments
1.0.0-2.0.1
Remediation
There are a couple of ways to mitigate prototype pollution vulnerabilities, for example: Most of the cases can be solved by freezing an object which doesn’t allow to add, remove, or change its properties. Validating the JSON input with schema validation, this guarantees that the JSON input contains only predefined attributes. We can change the objects, so they won’t have any prototype association by using “Object.create”.
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqwc-3vhw-qcvqJSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1wcXdjLTN2aHctcWN2cc4AAnAr
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: almost 2 years ago
Updated: 4 months ago
CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Identifiers: GHSA-pqwc-3vhw-qcvq, CVE-2020-28278
References:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28278
- https://github.com/robinvdvleuten/shvl/issues/34
- https://github.com/robinvdvleuten/shvl/pull/36
- https://github.com/robinvdvleuten/shvl/commit/513c0848774dfb114ad0d0554abf7927cfdd569e
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210320222933/https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-28278
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqwc-3vhw-qcvq
Blast Radius: 39.2
Affected Packages
npm:shvl
Dependent packages: 29Dependent repositories: 9,997
Downloads: 525,130 last month
Affected Version Ranges: >= 1.0.0, <= 2.0.1
Fixed in: 2.0.2
All affected versions: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1
All unaffected versions: 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 3.0.0