algolia/algoliasearch-helper-js · Security
Prototype Pollution in algoliasearch-helper
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vpf5-82c8-9v36
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-23433
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The package algoliasearch-helper before 3.6.2 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution due to use of the merge function in src/SearchParameters/index.jsSearchParameters._parseNumbers without any protection against prototype properties. Note that this vulnerability is only exploitable if the implementation allows users to define arbitrary search patterns.
CWEs
- CWE-915 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes
- CWE-1321 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23433 ↗
- https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-helper-js/commit/4ff542b70b92a6b81cce8b9255700b0bc0817edd ↗
- https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-helper-js/blob/3.5.5/src/SearchParameters/index.js%23L291 ↗
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ALGOLIASEARCHHELPER-1570421 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vpf5-82c8-9v36 ↗