protobufjs up to 6.11.2 code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in protobufjs up to 6.11.2 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2022-25878. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in protobufjs up to 6.11.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The package protobufjs before 6.11.3 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution which can allow an attacker to add/modify properties of the Object.prototype. This vulnerability can occur in multiple ways: 1. by providing untrusted user input to util.setProperty or to ReflectionObject.setParsedOption functions 2. by parsing/loading .proto files

The weakness was released 05/28/2022. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-25878 since 02/24/2022. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

Upgrading to version 6.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch b5f1391dff5515894830a6570e6d73f5511b2e8f is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: protobufjs 6.11.3
Patch: b5f1391dff5515894830a6570e6d73f5511b2e8f

Timelineinfo

02/24/2022 🔍
05/28/2022 +92 days 🔍
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06/01/2022 +4 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: b5f1391dff5515894830a6570e6d73f5511b2e8f
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-25878 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-25878
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-200876

Entryinfo

Created: 05/28/2022 07:32
Updated: 06/01/2022 17:34
Changes: 05/28/2022 07:32 (49), 06/01/2022 17:26 (2), 06/01/2022 17:34 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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