Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package polkit-docs (opens in a new tab)
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- published29 Nov 2022
- disclosed14 Oct 2022
Introduced: 14 Oct 2022
CVE-2022-37601 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream polkit-docs package and not the polkit-docs package as distributed by RHEL.
Prototype pollution vulnerability in function parseQuery in parseQuery.js in webpack loader-utils via the name variable in parseQuery.js. This affects all versions prior to 1.4.1 and 2.0.3.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37601
- http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L11
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L47
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212#issuecomment-1319192884
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00044.html