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Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

CVE-2022-0691

High
9.8/10

Summary

The NPM package url-parse has an authorization bypass vulnerability through "User-Controlled Key". Bypasses via the "\b" (backspace) character. Leading control characters in a URL are not stripped when passed to url-parse. This can cause input URLs to be mistakenly interpreted as a relative URL without a hostname and protocol, while the WHATWG URL parser will trim control characters and treat it as an absolute URL. This issue affects versions prior to 1.5.9.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published