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Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes in casperjs

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 13, 2023

Package

npm casperjs (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.1.4

Patched versions

None

Description

Overview

casperjs is a navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the mergeObjects utility function.

PoC

var payload = JSON.parse('{"__proto__": {"a": "pwned"}}');
mergeObjects({}, payload);
console.log({}.a); // prints "pwned"

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 19, 2020
Reviewed May 11, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2021
Last updated Sep 13, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS score

0.750%
(82nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7679

GHSA ID

GHSA-vrr3-5r3v-7xfw

Source code

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