Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') Affecting mozjs60-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.45% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MOZJS60DEVEL-3183141
  • published26 Dec 2022
  • disclosed24 Dec 2022

Introduced: 24 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-46175  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1321  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 mozjs60-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mozjs60-devel package and not the mozjs60-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

JSON5 is an extension to the popular JSON file format that aims to be easier to write and maintain by hand (e.g. for config files). The parse method of the JSON5 library before and including versions 1.0.1 and 2.2.1 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. 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. JSON5.parse should restrict parsing of __proto__ keys when parsing JSON strings to objects. As a point of reference, the JSON.parse method included in JavaScript ignores __proto__ keys. Simply changing JSON5.parse to JSON.parse in the examples above mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability is patched in json5 versions 1.0.2, 2.2.2, and later.

CVSS Scores

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