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GHSA-XP9C-82X8-7F67

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-02-26 16:31 – Updated: 2021-09-22 13:55

Summary

Prototype Pollution in Node-Red

Details

Impact

Node-RED 1.2.7 and earlier contains a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in the admin API. A badly formed request can modify the prototype of the default JavaScript Object with the potential to affect the default behaviour of the Node-RED runtime.

Patches

The vulnerability is patched in the 1.2.8 release.

Workarounds

A workaround is to ensure only authorised users are able to access the editor url.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at team@nodered.org

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Tencent Woodpecker Security Team for disclosing this vulnerability.

Severity

7.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2021-21297 (GCVE-0-2021-21297)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-26 16:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09

Title

Prototype Pollution in Node-Red

Summary

Node-Red is a low-code programming for event-driven applications built using nodejs. Node-RED 1.2.7 and earlier contains a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in the admin API. A badly formed request can modify the prototype of the default JavaScript Object with the potential to affect the default behaviour of the Node-RED runtime. The vulnerability is patched in the 1.2.8 release. A workaround is to ensure only authorized users are able to access the editor url.

Severity

7.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
CWE-915 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

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https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40node-red/runtime	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40node-red/editor-api	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/node-red/node-red/releases/tag/1.2.8	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
node-red	node-red	Affected: < 1.2.8

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