TaffyDB can allow access to any data items in the DB

Description

TaffyDB allows attackers to forge adding additional properties into user-input processed by taffy which can allow access to any data items in the DB. Taffy sets an internal index for each data item in its DB. However, it is found that the internal index can be forged by adding additional properties into user-input.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 2.7.3

References

• GHSA-mxhp-79qh-mcx6
• snyk.io
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-10790
• CWE-20
• CWE-668
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Unauthorized File Access in harp - CVE-2019-5437

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