Bug 2020369 (CVE-2021-23820) - CVE-2021-23820 json-pointer: type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypass of CVE-2020-7709 when the pointer components are arrays
Summary: CVE-2021-23820 json-pointer: type confusion vulnerability can lead to a bypas...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2021-23820
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2021-11-04 16:53 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:33 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:4880 0 None None None 2022-06-02 02:06:51 UTC

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
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