Prototype Pollution in Dexie

Description

Dexie is a minimalistic wrapper for IndexedDB. The package dexie before 3.2.2, from 4.0.0-alpha.1 and before 4.0.0-alpha.3 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in the Dexie.setByKeyPath(obj, keyPath, value) function which does not properly check the keys being set (like proto or constructor).

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 4.0.0-alpha.1, <= 4.0.0-alpha.2

  < 3.2.2**

• Patched version(s): **4.0.0-alpha.3

  3.2.2**

References

• GHSA-3xgx-r9j4-qw9w
• snyk.io
• CVE-2022-21189
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype Pollution in lodash - CVE-2018-3721
• Cross-site Scripting in quill - CVE-2021-3163
• Prototype Pollution in async - CVE-2021-43138
• Joplin Remote Code Execution - CVE-2022-40277

Tags:

npm

dexie