Bug 2020369 (CVE-2021-23820)

Summary:	CVE-2021-23820 json-pointer: type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypass of CVE-2020-7709 when the pointer components are arrays
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-11-04 16:53:00 UTC

This affects all versions of package json-pointer. A type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypass of CVE-2020-7709 when the pointer components are arrays.

References:
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSONPOINTER-1577287
https://github.com/manuelstofer/json-pointer/blob/master/index.js#23L78

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2021-11-17 06:50:10 UTC

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/manuelstofer/json-pointer/issues/35

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2022-06-02 02:06:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHACS-3.70-RHEL-8

Via RHSA-2022:4880 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4880