A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in mongose on Node.js (JavaScript Library) (the affected version is unknown). Affected is an unknown code. The manipulation as part of a Environment Variable leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

mongose was a malicious module published with the intent to hijack environment variables. It has been unpublished by npm.

The bug was discovered 08/09/2017. The weakness was released 06/07/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at nodesecurity.io. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-16077 since 10/29/2017. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 301 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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