Improper Input Validation Affecting nginx/njs package, versions [0,0.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.54% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NGINXNJS-2366368
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24349  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nginx/njs to version 0.5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation njs through 0.4.3, used in NGINX, allows control-flow hijack in njs_value_property in njs_value.c. NOTE: the vendor considers the issue to be "fluff" in the NGINX use case because there is no remote attack surface.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1