CVE-2020-7770

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7770
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-12 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-02 19:44:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects the package json8 before 1.0.3. The function adds in the target object the property specified in the path, however it does not properly check the key being set, leading to a prototype pollution.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1321

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Json8 Project Json8 All All All All
Application Json8 Project Json8 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
json8-merge-patch: Prevent prototype pollution 2 (#116) · sonnyp/JSON8@2e89026 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Prototype Pollution in json8 | Snyk MISC snyk.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Alessio Della Libera (d3lla)

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982608 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for json8 (GHSA-7h43-gx24-p529)

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