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Prototype pollution

High
bigopon published GHSA-3c9c-2p65-qvwv Sep 26, 2021

Package

npm aurelia-path (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.1.6

Patched versions

1.1.7

Description

Impact

The vulnerability exposes Aurelia application that uses aurelia-path package to parse a string. The majority of this will be Aurelia applications that employ the aurelia-router package. An example is this could allow an attacker to change the prototype of base object class Object by tricking an application to parse the following URL: https://aurelia.io/blog/?__proto__[asdf]=asdf

Patches

The problem should be patched in version 1.1.7. Any version earlier than this is vulnerable.

Workarounds

A partial work around is to free the Object prototype:

Object.freeze(Object.prototype)

References

#44

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2021-41097

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits