Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Description

An attacker controlling the second variable of the translate function is able to perform a cache poisoning attack. They can change the outcome of translation requests made by subsequent users.

Recommendation

Update the translate package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.0.0
• Patched version(s): 3.0.0

References

• GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj
• CVE-2024-29042
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Langchain Path Traversal vulnerability - CVE-2024-7774
• squirrelly Code Injection vulnerability - CVE-2024-40453
• Glossarizer Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - CVE-2024-42515
• lilconfig Code Injection vulnerability - CVE-2024-21537

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Tags:

npm

translate