CVE-2024-21505

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

Description

Versions of the package web3-utils before 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the utility functions format and mergeDeep, due to insecure recursive merge. An attacker can manipulate an object's prototype, potentially leading to the alteration of the behavior of all objects inheriting from the affected prototype by passing specially crafted input to these functions.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2024-21505

Assigner
snyk

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-03-25T05:00:00.749Z

Last Modified Date
2024-03-25T05:00:00.749Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-1321	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1321.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WEB3UTILS-6229337
https://github.com/web3/web3.js/commit/8ed041c6635d807b3da8960ad49e125e3d1b0e80

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21505
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21505

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-06-26 15:27:27				Added to TrackCVE