CVE-2020-7723

Prototype Pollution

Critical · published September 1, 2020

CVSS v3.1
9.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
79.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

🔥 With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is no joke! The promisehelpers package has a sneaky Prototype Pollution flaw that can turn your application upside down! Think of it like a mischievous chef altering the recipe book without anyone noticing — suddenly, every dish served comes out with unexpected ingredients, causing chaos in the kitchen! 🍽️ An attacker could exploit this flaw to modify objects and introduce unexpected behavior in your application. This means they could potentially wreak havoc, causing data corruption, unauthorized access, or even full system compromise! Absolutely devastating for your project's integrity!

Put simply

Think of it like a mischievous chef altering the recipe book without anyone noticing — suddenly, every dish served comes out with unexpected ingredients, causing chaos in the kitchen! 🍽️ This Prototype Pollution vulnerability in the promisehelpers package allows attackers to manipulate the behavior of JavaScript objects through the insert function, letting them inject malicious properties into existing objects.

What to do

An attacker could exploit this flaw to modify objects and introduce unexpected behavior in your application. This means they could potentially wreak havoc, causing data corruption, unauthorized access, or even full system compromise! Absolutely devastating for your project's integrity! To mitigate this risk, update promisehelpers to the latest version where this issue is patched. Conduct an audit of code that relies on this package to ensure integrity and review any object handling to prevent unintended consequences. You've got this! Fix this vulnerability, and your application will be safer in no time! 🛡️

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.8 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01916 · 79.7th percentile
Published
2020-09-01T09:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 SEP 09:45Z
    Prototype Pollution
    cvelistv5