Bug 1649118 (CVE-2018-16472)

Summary:	CVE-2018-16472 nodejs-cached-path-relative: prototype pollution due to injected properties on Object.prototype
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cbyrne, cmacedo, dffrench, drusso, jmadigan, jshepherd, lgriffin, ngough, pwright, trepel
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-cached-path-relative 1.0.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Blocks:	1649119

Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-12 23:26:35 UTC

A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <= 1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack. 


References:
https://github.com/ashaffer/cached-path-relative/issues/3
https://hackerone.com/reports/390847

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/ashaffer/cached-path-relative/commit/a43cffec84ed0e9eceecb43b534b6937a8028fc0

Comment 1 Jason Shepherd 2019-08-08 04:40:10 UTC

This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following product:

 * Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

 Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhmap for more details

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-08 07:18:24 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16472