GHSA-H6XG-RG33-9MF4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:03 – Updated: 2024-04-22 23:22Overview
Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'deep-defaults' versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.5 allows attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.
Details
The NPM module deep-defaults can be abused by Prototype Pollution vulnerability since the function _deepDefaults() does 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
The _deepDefaults () function accepts dest, src as arguments. Due to the absence of validation on the values passed into the src argument, an attacker can supply a malicious value by adjusting the value to include the __proto__ property. Since 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 to the new object thereby polluting the Object prototype. Later in the code, if there is a check to validate polluted the valued would be substituted as "Yes! Its Polluted" as it had been polluted.
var deepDefaults = require("deep-defaults")
var malicious_payload = '{"__proto__":{"polluted":"Yes! Its Polluted"}}';
var obj ={};
console.log("Before : " + {}.polluted);
deepDefaults(obj, JSON.parse(malicious_payload));
console.log("After : " + {}.polluted);
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "npm",
"name": "deep-defaults"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "1.0.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.0.5"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-25944"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-1321"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-22T23:22:36Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2021-05-25T19:15:00Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL"
},
"details": "### Overview\nPrototype pollution vulnerability in \u0027deep-defaults\u0027 versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.5 allows attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.\n\n### Details\nThe NPM module `deep-defaults` can be abused by Prototype Pollution vulnerability since the function `_deepDefaults()` does 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.\n\n### PoC\nThe `_deepDefaults ()` function accepts `dest`, `src` as arguments. Due to the absence of validation on the values passed into the `src` argument, an attacker can supply a malicious value by adjusting the value to include the `__proto__` property. Since there is no validation before assigning the property to check whether the assigned argument is the Object\u0027s own property or not, the property `polluted` will be directly be assigned to the new object thereby polluting the Object prototype. Later in the code, if there is a check to validate `polluted` the valued would be substituted as \"Yes! Its Polluted\" as it had been polluted.\n\n```js\nvar deepDefaults = require(\"deep-defaults\")\nvar malicious_payload = \u0027{\"__proto__\":{\"polluted\":\"Yes! Its Polluted\"}}\u0027;\nvar obj ={};\nconsole.log(\"Before : \" + {}.polluted);\ndeepDefaults(obj, JSON.parse(malicious_payload));\nconsole.log(\"After : \" + {}.polluted);\n```",
"id": "GHSA-h6xg-rg33-9mf4",
"modified": "2024-04-22T23:22:36Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:03:10Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25944"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/d5/deep-defaults"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/d5/deep-defaults/blob/321d0e2231aa807d54e7f95d75c22048a806923f/lib/index.js#L16"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210525211925/https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25944"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "deep-defaults vulnerable to prototype pollution"
}
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
|---|
Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.