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Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

CVE-2022-2564

High
9.8/10

Summary

Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment. Mongoose versions prior to 6.4.6 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The "Schema.path()" and "Schema.add()" function is vulnerable to prototype pollution when setting the schema object. This vulnerability allows modification of the Object prototype and could be manipulated into a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

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

CWE-1321 - Prototype Pollution

Prototype pollution is one of the lesser-known vulnerabilities. It allows attackers to abuse the rules of JavaScript by injecting properties into the general object “Object” in JS. Modifying the prototype of “Object” affects the behavior of all objects in the entire app, potentially resulting in denial of service, arbitrary code execution, cross-site scripting, etc.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published