Prototype pollution in node-forge - CVE-2020-7720

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Prototype pollution in node-forge - CVE-2020-7720

Published: September 30, 2020 / Updated: December 22, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU47225
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7720
CWE-ID: CWE-94
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the util.setPath function. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary script code.



Affected software

node-forge
IBM Cloud Automation Manager
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7720

Update to version 0.10.0.

node-forge - update to 0.10.0

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