Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affecting org.webjars.npm:url-parse package, versions [,1.5.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2412698
  • published24 Feb 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2022
  • credithaxatron

Introduced: 17 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-0639  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-639  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:url-parse to version 1.5.8 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:url-parse is a Small footprint URL parser that works seamlessly across Node.js and browser environments.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key due to incorrect conversion of @ in the protocol field of the HREF.

PoC:

parse = require('url-parse')

console.log(parse("http:@/127.0.0.1"))

Output:

{
  slashes: true,
  protocol: 'http:',
  hash: '',
  query: '',
  pathname: '/127.0.0.1',
  auth: '',
  host: '',
  port: '',
  hostname: '',
  password: '',
  username: '',
  origin: 'null',
  href: 'http:///127.0.0.1'
}

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