Information Exposure Affecting mongoose package, versions <4.13.21>=5.0.0 <5.7.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MONGOOSE-472486
  • published10 Oct 2019
  • disclosed10 Jul 2019
  • creditxiaofen9

Introduced: 10 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-17426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mongoose to version 4.13.21, 5.7.5 or higher.

Overview

mongoose is a Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Any query object with a _bsontype attribute is ignored, allowing attackers to bypass access control.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1