uplot up to 1.6.30 uplot.assign prototype pollution

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in uplot up to 1.6.30. The affected element is the function uplot.assign. The manipulation leads to prototype pollution. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-21489. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in uplot up to 1.6.30 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function uplot.assign. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a prototype pollution vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1321. The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Versions of the package uplot before 1.6.31 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the uplot.assign function due to missing check if the attribute resolves to the object prototype.

The advisory is shared at security.snyk.io. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-21489 since 12/22/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209007 (RHEL 8 : grafana (RHSA-2024:8083)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.6.31 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 5756e3e9b91270b303157e14bd0174311047d983 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209007). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Name

• uplot

Version

• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.6.7
• 1.6.8
• 1.6.9
• 1.6.10
• 1.6.11
• 1.6.12
• 1.6.13
• 1.6.14
• 1.6.15
• 1.6.16
• 1.6.17
• 1.6.18
• 1.6.19
• 1.6.20
• 1.6.21
• 1.6.22
• 1.6.23
• 1.6.24
• 1.6.25
• 1.6.26
• 1.6.27
• 1.6.28
• 1.6.29
• 1.6.30

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• open-source

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