Prototype Pollution in async

Description

A vulnerability exists in Async through 3.2.1 for 3.x and through 2.6.3 for 2.x (fixed in 3.2.2 and 2.6.4), which could let a malicious user obtain privileges via the mapValues() method.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 2.0.0, < 2.6.4

  >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.2**

• Patched version(s): **2.6.4

  3.2.2**

References

• GHSA-fwr7-v2mv-hh25
• jsfiddle.net
• lists.fedoraproject.org
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2021-43138
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype Pollution in lodash - CVE-2018-3721
• Cross-site Scripting in quill - CVE-2021-3163
• Joplin Remote Code Execution - CVE-2022-40277
• Validation Bypass in kind-of - CVE-2019-20149

Tags:

npm

async