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HIGH8.4

GHSA-x2w5-725j-gf2g

Prototype Pollution in convict

Quick fix

GHSA-x2w5-725j-gf2g — convict: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install convict@6.2.3

Details

### Impact

* An attacker can inject attributes that are used in other components * An attacker can 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 sabotage their own server. Still a situation can happen where an admin not knowledgeable about JavaScript could be tricked by an attacker into writing the malicious JavaScript code into some config files.

### Patches

The problem is patched in `convict@6.2.3`. Users should upgrade to `convict@6.2.3`.

### Workarounds

No way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading

### References

* https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-npm-convict/ * #384 * 3b86be087d8f14681a9c889d45da7fe3ad9cd880 * 1ea0ab19c5208f66509e1c43b0d0f21c1fd29b75

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: add your question as a comment in #384

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Affected packages

npm/convict
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 6.2.3
Fixnpm install convict@6.2.3

References