Prototype Pollution in protobufjs

Description

The package protobufjs is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution, which can allow an attacker to add/modify properties of the Object.prototype. Versions after and including 6.10.0 until 6.10.3 and after and including 6.11.0 until 6.11.3 are vulnerable.

This vulnerability can occur in multiple ways:

1. by providing untrusted user input to util.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 6.10.0, < 6.10.3

  >= 6.11.0, < 6.11.3**

• Patched version(s): **6.10.3

  6.11.3**

References

• GHSA-g954-5hwp-pp24
• snyk.io
• CVE-2022-25878
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype Pollution in JSON5 via Parse Method - CVE-2022-46175
• Prototype pollution in Plist before 3.0.5 can cause denial of service - CVE-2022-22912
• Grunt-karma vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2022-37602
• thlorenz browserify-shim vulnerable to prototype pollution - browserify-shim - GHSA-cfgr-75jx-h88g - CVE-2022-37623

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Tags:

npm

protobufjs