Prototype pollution in Lodash - CVE-2018-16487

 

Prototype pollution in Lodash - CVE-2018-16487

Published: July 22, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19305
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16487
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep functions. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and add or modify properties of Object.prototype.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of the affected application.


Affected software

Lodash
QRadar Pulse App
watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
watsonx.data integration
Rational Performance Tester
DevOps Test Performance
Business Automation Insights
MobileFirst Platform
IBM Intelligent Operations Center
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
IBM Process Mining
IBM Security Verify Governance
IBM Security SOAR

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16487

Install updates from vendor's website.

Lodash - update to 4.17.11
QRadar Pulse App - update to 2.2.9
watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition - update to 2.0.0
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator - update to 2.3.4
IBM Intelligent Operations Center - update to 5.2.4
watsonx.data integration - update to 5.3.1
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - update to 9.0.0.0.0 IF14
DevOps Test Performance - update to 11.0.8
Business Automation Insights - addressed in versions 24.0.0.0.5, 24.0.1.0.5, 25.0.0.0.2
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 24.0.1-IF006, 25.0.0-IF003
IBM Security SOAR - update to 51.0.10.2
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor - update to 1.9.6
IBM Process Mining - update to 1.12.0.4
MobileFirst Platform - update to 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202301121031
IBM Security Verify Governance - update to 10.0.1.0.5

External References

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