Prototype Pollution Affecting appwrite/server-ce package, versions >=0.12.0, <0.12.2 <0.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.48% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-APPWRITESERVERCE-2401820
  • published 16 Feb 2022
  • disclosed 24 Jan 2022
  • credit Alessio Della Libera of Snyk Research Team

How to fix?

Upgrade appwrite/server-ce to version 0.12.2, 0.11.1 or higher.

Overview

appwrite/server-ce is an End to end backend server for frontend and mobile apps.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. When parsing the query string in the getJsonFromUrl function, the key that is set in the result object is not properly sanitized leading to a Prototype Pollution vulnerability.

PoC

  1. add the following query string ?__proto__[polluted]=yes

  2. open the browser developer console. The property polluted has value yes

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.3 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

9.8 critical