json-pointer vulnerable to Prototype Pollution

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in json-pointer up to 0.6.1. Affected by this issue is the function set of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes (‘prototype pollution’). The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.6.

Recommendation

Update the json-pointer package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.6.2
• Patched version(s): 0.6.2

References

• GHSA-6xrf-q977-5vgc
• vuldb.com
• CVE-2022-4742
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• deep-parse-json vulnerable to Prototype Pollution - CVE-2022-42743
• Prototype pollution in json-pointer - json-pointer - CVE-2020-7709
• Prototype Pollution in json-pointer - CVE-2021-23820
• steal vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via alias variable - CVE-2022-37265

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Tags:

npm

json-pointer