CVE-2019-20149

Summary

CVECVE-2019-20149
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-30 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionctorName in index.js in kind-of v6.0.2 allows external user input to overwrite certain internal attributes via a conflicting name, as demonstrated by 'constructor': {'name':'Symbol'}. Hence, a crafted payload can overwrite this builtin attribute to manipulate the type detection result.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-668

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kind-of Project Kind-of 6.0.2 All All All
Application Kind-of Project Kind-of 6.0.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
type checking · Issue #30 · jonschlinkert/kind-of · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
fix type checking vul in ctorName by xiaofen9 · Pull Request #31 · jonschlinkert/kind-of · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
  • 981569 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for kind-of (GHSA-6c8f-qphg-qjgp)
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