CVE-2024-21505 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00062.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-0786	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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-2g4c-8fpm-c46v	web3-utils Prototype Pollution vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

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

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: snyk

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

Updated: 2024-08-23T19:10:40.905Z

Reserved: 2023-12-22T12:33:20.119Z

Link: CVE-2024-21505

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:20:40.897Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-25T05:15:50.663

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:54:34.517

Link: CVE-2024-21505

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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