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GHSA-97JV-C342-5XHC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-19 15:30 – Updated: 2022-12-29 23:37

Summary

FurqanSoftware/node-whois vulnerable to Prototype Pollution

Details

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Furqan node-whois. Affected is an unknown function of the file index.coffee. The manipulation leads to improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes ('prototype pollution'). It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is 46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216252.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

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  "id": "GHSA-97jv-c342-5xhc",
  "modified": "2022-12-29T23:37:10Z",
  "published": "2022-12-19T15:30:29Z",
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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      "type": "WEB",
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}

CVE-2020-36618 (GCVE-0-2020-36618)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-19 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 12:57

Title

Furqan node-whois index.coffee prototype pollution

Summary

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Furqan node-whois. Affected is an unknown function of the file index.coffee. The manipulation leads to improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes ('prototype pollution'). It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is 46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216252.

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-14 16:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-74 - Injection -> CWE-94 Code Injection -> CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Assigner

VulDB CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 3875 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/pull/105
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/comm…
https://vuldb.com/?id.216252

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Furqan	node-whois	Affected: n/a

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