CVE-2024-21505 (GCVE-0-2024-21505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-25 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-23 19:10
VLAI
Summary
Versions of the package web3-utils before 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the utility functions format and mergeDeep, due to insecure recursive merge. An attacker can manipulate an object's prototype, potentially leading to the alteration of the behavior of all objects inheriting from the affected prototype by passing specially crafted input to these functions.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1321 - Prototype Pollution
  • CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a web3-utils Affected: 0 , < 4.2.1 (semver)
web3 web3-utils Affected: 0 , < 4.2.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:web3:web3-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Tariq Hawis
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