express-restify-mongoose up to 2.4.2/3.0.1 REST Interface /User?distinct=password Password information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in express-restify-mongoose up to 2.4.2/3.0.1. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /User?distinct=password of the component REST Interface. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure (Password). This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2016-10533. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Restrictive firewalling should be applied.

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A vulnerability was found in express-restify-mongoose up to 2.4.2/3.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file /User?distinct=password of the component REST Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

express-restify-mongoose is a module to easily create a flexible REST interface for mongoose models. express-restify-mongoose 2.4.2 and earlier and 3.0.X through 3.0.1 allows a malicious user to send a request for `GET /User?distinct=password` and get all the passwords for all the users in the database, despite the field being set to private. This can be used for other private data if the malicious user knew what was set as private for specific routes.

The bug was discovered 04/19/2016. The weakness was presented 05/31/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-10533 since 10/29/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. 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 772 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Addressing this vulnerability is possible by firewalling .

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• express-restify-mongoose

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• 2.4.0
• 2.4.1
• 2.4.2
• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1

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