Improper Validation and Sanitization in url-parse

Description

Insufficient validation and sanitization of user input exists in url-parse npm package version 1.4.4 and earlier may allow attacker to bypass security checks.

Recommendation

Update the url-parse package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 0.1.0, < 1.4.5
• Patched version(s): 1.4.5

References

• GHSA-46c4-8wrp-j99v
• hackerone.com
• CVE-2020-8124
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in url-parse - CVE-2022-0686
• Authorization bypass in url-parse - CVE-2022-0512
• Improper Input Validation in url-js - CVE-2022-25839
• url-parse incorrectly parses hostname / protocol due to unstripped leading control characters. - CVE-2022-0691

Tags:

npm

url-parse