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

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• Remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution - CVE-2022-39396

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Tags:

npm

dexie