CVE-2019-20149 — Resource Exposure in Node-kind-of
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 51.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Latest updateMar 31
Description
ctorName in index.js in kind-of v6.0.2 allows external user input to overwrite certain internal attributes via a conflicting name, as demonstrated by 'constructor': {'name':'Symbol'}. Hence, a crafted payload can overwrite this builtin attribute to manipulate the type detection result.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages9 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
3Red Hat▶
nodejs-kind-of: ctorName in index.js allows external user input to overwrite certain internal attributes↗2019-12-16
Microsoft▶
ctorName in index.js in kind-of v6.0.2 allows external user input to overwrite certain internal attributes via a conflicting name as demonstrated by 'constructor': {'name':'Symbol'}. Hence a crafted p↗2019-12-10
Debian▶
CVE-2019-20149: node-kind-of - ctorName in index.js in kind-of v6.0.2 allows external user input to overwrite c...↗2019