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Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities occur when unescaped input is rendered into a page displayed to the user. When HTML or script is included in the input, it will be processed by a user's browser as HTML or script and can alter the appearance of the page or execute malicious scripts in their user context.
The Denial of Service (DoS) attack is focused on making a resource (site, application, server) unavailable for the purpose it was designed. There are many ways to make a service unavailable for legitimate users by manipulating network packets, programming, logical, or resources handling vulnerabilities, among others. Source: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Denial_of_Service
By adding or modifying attributes of an object prototype, it is possible to create attributes that exist on every object, or replace critical attributes with malicious ones. This can be problematic if the software depends on existence or non-existence of certain attributes, or uses pre-defined attributes of object prototype (such as hasOwnProperty, toString or valueOf).
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GitHub Vulnerability Alerts
CVE-2022-46175
The
parse
method of the JSON5 library before and including version2.2.1
does not restrict parsing of keys named__proto__
, allowing specially crafted strings to pollute the prototype of the resulting object.This vulnerability pollutes the prototype of the object returned by
JSON5.parse
and not the global Object prototype, which is the commonly understood definition of Prototype Pollution. However, polluting the prototype of a single object can have significant security impact for an application if the object is later used in trusted operations.Impact
This vulnerability could allow an attacker to set arbitrary and unexpected keys on the object returned from
JSON5.parse
. The actual impact will depend on how applications utilize the returned object and how they filter unwanted keys, but could include denial of service, cross-site scripting, elevation of privilege, and in extreme cases, remote code execution.Mitigation
This vulnerability is patched in json5 v2.2.2 and later. A patch has also been backported for json5 v1 in versions v1.0.2 and later.
Details
Suppose a developer wants to allow users and admins to perform some risky operation, but they want to restrict what non-admins can do. To accomplish this, they accept a JSON blob from the user, parse it using
JSON5.parse
, confirm that the provided data does not set some sensitive keys, and then performs the risky operation using the validated data:If the user attempts to set the
isAdmin
key, their request will be rejected:However, users can instead set the
__proto__
key to{"isAdmin": true}
.JSON5
will parse this key and will set theisAdmin
key on the prototype of the returned object, allowing the user to bypass the security check and run their request as an admin:Configuration
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