CVE-2021-21422

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-21422
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-21 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-29 14:02:00 UTC
Descriptionmongo-express is a web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express. 1: As mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577, when the content of a cell grows larger than supported size, clicking on a row will show full document unescaped, however this needs admin interaction on cell. 2: Data cells identified as media will be rendered as media, without being sanitized. Example of different renders: image, audio, video, etc. As an example of type 1 attack, an unauthorized user who only can send a large amount of data in a field of a document may use a payload with embedded javascript. This could send an export of a collection to the attacker without even an admin knowing. Other types of attacks such as dropping a database\collection are possible.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mongo-express Project Mongo-express 1.0.0 alpha1 All All
Application Mongo-express Project Mongo-express 1.0.0 alpha3 All All
Application Mongo-express Project Mongo-express All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HTML in String fields is not escaped if only preview is loaded · Issue #577 · mongo-express/mongo-express · GitHub MISC github.com
Merge pull request from GHSA-7p8h-86p5-wv3p · mongo-express/mongo-express@f5e0d49 · GitHub MISC github.com
Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities · Advisory · mongo-express/mongo-express · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982047 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for mongo-express (GHSA-7p8h-86p5-wv3p)

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