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Prototype Pollution in express-fileupload

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 5, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

npm express-fileupload (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.1.9

Patched versions

1.1.9

Description

This affects the package express-fileupload before 1.1.8. If the parseNested option is enabled, sending a corrupt HTTP request can lead to denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 30, 2020
Reviewed Aug 3, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 5, 2020
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

1.319%
(86th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-7699

GHSA ID

GHSA-9wcg-jrwf-8gg7

Source code

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