CVE-2023-0163 — Prototype Pollution in Mozilla Convict
Severity
8.4HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 26
Description
Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') vulnerability in Mozilla Convict.
This allows an attacker to inject attributes that are used in other components, or to override existing attributes with ones that have incompatible type, which may lead to a crash.
The main use case of Convict is for handling server-side
configurations written by the admins owning the servers, and not random
users. So it's unlikely that an admin would deliberately sabota…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.5 | Impact: 5.9