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Prototype Pollution in Dynamoose

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 6, 2021 in dynamoose/dynamoose • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

npm dynamoose (npm)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.7.0

Patched versions

2.7.0

Description

Impact

In Dynamoose versions 2.0.0-2.6.0 there was a prototype pollution vulnerability in the internal utility method lib/utils/object/set.ts. This method is used throughout the codebase for various operations throughout Dynamoose.

We have not seen any evidence of this vulnerability being exploited.

We do not believe this issue impacts v1.x.x since this method was added as part of the v2 rewrite. This vulnerability also impacts v2.x.x beta/alpha versions.

Patches

v2.7.0 includes a patch for this vulnerability.

Workarounds

We are unaware of any workarounds to patch this vulnerability other than upgrading to v2.7.0 or greater.

References

  • Patch commit hash: 324c62b4709204955931a187362f8999805b1d8e

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Credit

  • GitHub CodeQL Code Scanning

References

@fishcharlie fishcharlie published to dynamoose/dynamoose Feb 6, 2021
Reviewed Feb 8, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 8, 2021
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 8, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.2
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21304

GHSA ID

GHSA-rrqm-p222-8ph2

Source code

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