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Overview

jws is an implementation of JSON Web Signatures. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass attack, due to the "algorithm" not being enforced in jws.verify(). Attackers are given the opportunity to choose the algorithm sent to the server and generate signatures with arbitrary contents. The server expects an asymmetric key (RSA) but is sent a symmetric key (HMAC-SHA) with RSA's public key, so instead of going through a key validation process, the server will think the public key is actually an HMAC private key.

Remediation

Upgrade jws to version 3.0.0 or later.

References

• Auth0 Blog

Overview

bson is a BSON Parser for node and browser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Internal Property Tampering. The package will ignore an unknown value for an object's _bsotype, leading to cases where an object is serialized as a document rather than the intended BSON type.

NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2019-2391

Remediation

Upgrade bson to version 1.1.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• Release Note

Overview

bson is a BSON Parser for node and browser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Internal Property Tampering. The package will ignore an unknown value for an object's _bsotype, leading to cases where an object is serialized as a document rather than the intended BSON type.

NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2020-7610

Remediation

Upgrade bson to version 1.1.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• Release Note

Overview

jsrsasign is a free pure JavaScript cryptographic library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature when JWS or JWT signature with non Base64URL encoding special characters or number escaped characters may be validated as valid by mistake.

Workaround:

Validate JWS or JWT signature if it has Base64URL and dot safe string before executing JWS.verify() or JWS.verifyJWT() method.

PoC:

var KJUR = require('jsrsasign');
var rsu = require('jsrsasign-util');

// jsrsasign@10.5.24

//// creating valid hs256 jwt - code used to get valid hs256 jwt.
// var oHeader = {alg: 'HS256', typ: 'JWT'};
// // Payload
// var oPayload = {};
// var tNow = KJUR.jws.IntDate.get('now');
// var tEnd = KJUR.jws.IntDate.get('now + 1year');
// oPayload.iss = "https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foo.com&d=DwIGAg&c=wwDYKmuffy0jxUGHACmjfA&r=3J3pjDmBp7lIUZbkdHkHLg&m=CP36zULZ4
oa9S7i8rFsa5Rei7n32BgBaGjoG8lCiqO-pm9ZIzxG9adHdbUE4qski&s=eMfp9lSTyBb95UqdO_sO3ukTKlGihPESsUm5F4yotGk&e= ";
// oPayload.sub = "mailto:mike@foo.com";
// oPayload.nbf = tNow;
// oPayload.iat = tNow;
// oPayload.exp = tEnd;
// oPayload.jti = "id123456";
// oPayload.aud = "https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__foo.com_employee&d=DwIGAg&c=wwDYKmuffy0jxUGHACmjfA&r=3J3pjDmBp7lIUZbkdHkHLg&m=C
P36zULZ4oa9S7i8rFsa5Rei7n32BgBaGjoG8lCiqO-pm9ZIzxG9adHdbUE4qski&s=bxlm95BhVv7dbGuy_vRD4JBci6ODNdgOU7Q7bNPkv48&e= ";
// // Sign JWT, password=616161
// var sHeader = JSON.stringify(oHeader);
// var sPayload = JSON.stringify(oPayload);
// var sJWT = KJUR.jws.JWS.sign("HS256", sHeader, sPayload, "616161");


//verifying valid and invalid hs256 jwt
//validjwt
var validJwt = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwOi8vZm9vLmNvbSIsInN1YiI6Im1haWx0bzp
taWtlQGZvby5jb20iLCJuYmYiOjE2NTUyMjk3MjksImlhdCI6MTY1NTIyOTcyOSwiZXhwIjoxNjg2NzY1NzI5LC
JqdGkiOiJpZDEyMzQ1NiIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9mb28uY29tL2VtcGxveWVlIn0.eqrgPFuchnot7HgslW8S
1xQUkTDBW-_cyhrPgOOFRzI";
//invalid jwt with special signs
var invalidJwt1 = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwOi8vZm9vLmNvbSIsInN1YiI6Im1haWx0bzp
taWtlQGZvby5jb20iLCJuYmYiOjE2NTUyMjk3MjksImlhdCI6MTY1NTIyOTcyOSwiZXhwIjoxNjg2NzY1NzI5LC
JqdGkiOiJpZDEyMzQ1NiIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9mb28uY29tL2VtcGxveWVlIn0.eqrgPFuchno!@#$%^&*
()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()t7HgslW8S1xQUkTDBW-_cyhrPgOOFRzI";
//invalid jwt with additional numbers and signs
var invalidJwt2 = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwOi8vZm9vLmNvbSIsInN1YiI6Im1haWx0bzp
taWtlQGZvby5jb20iLCJuYmYiOjE2NTUyMjk3MjksImlhdCI6MTY1NTIyOTcyOSwiZXhwIjoxNjg2NzY1NzI5LC
JqdGkiOiJpZDEyMzQ1NiIsImF1ZCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9mb28uY29tL2VtcGxveWVlIn0.eqrgPFuchno\1\1\2\3\4
\2\2\3\2\1\2\222\3\1\1\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\2\222\23\2\2\2\2t7HgslW8S1xQUkTDBW-_cyhrPgOOFRzI";


var isValid = KJUR.jws.JWS.verifyJWT(validJwt, "616161", {alg: ['HS256']});
console.log("valid hs256 Jwt: " + isValid); //valid Jwt: true

//verifying invalid  1 hs256 jwt
var isValid = KJUR.jws.JWS.verifyJWT(invalidJwt1, "616161", {alg: ['HS256']});
console.log("invalid hs256  Jwt by special signs: " + isValid); //invalid Jwt  by special signs: true

//verifying invalid 2 hs256 jwt
var isValid = KJUR.jws.JWS.verifyJWT(invalidJwt2, "616161", {alg: ['HS256']});
console.log("invalid hs256  Jwt by additional numbers and slashes: " + isValid); //invalid Jwt by additional numbers and slashes: true

Remediation

Upgrade jsrsasign to version 10.5.25 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Release

Overview

jsrsasign is a free pure JavaScript cryptographic library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Observable Discrepancy via the RSA PKCS#1.5 or RSAOAEP decryption process. An attacker can decrypt ciphertexts by exploiting the Marvin security flaw. Exploiting this vulnerability requires the attacker to have access to a large number of ciphertexts encrypted with the same key.

Workaround

The vulnerability can be mitigated by finding and replacing RSA and RSAOAEP decryption with another crypto library.

Remediation

Upgrade jsrsasign to version 11.0.0 or higher.

References

• GitHub Commit
• GitHub Issue
• Vulnerability Report

Overview

mongodb is an official MongoDB driver for Node.js.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The package fails to properly catch an exception when a collection name is invalid and the DB does not exist, crashing the application.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its original and legitimate users. There are many types of DoS attacks, ranging from trying to clog the network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines (a Distributed Denial of Service - DDoS - attack) to sending crafted requests that cause a system to crash or take a disproportional amount of time to process.

The Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a type of Denial of Service attack. Regular expressions are incredibly powerful, but they aren't very intuitive and can ultimately end up making it easy for attackers to take your site down.

Let’s take the following regular expression as an example:

regex = /A(B|C+)+D/

This regular expression accomplishes the following:

• A The string must start with the letter 'A'
• (B|C+)+ The string must then follow the letter A with either the letter 'B' or some number of occurrences of the letter 'C' (the + matches one or more times). The + at the end of this section states that we can look for one or more matches of this section.
• D Finally, we ensure this section of the string ends with a 'D'

The expression would match inputs such as ABBD, ABCCCCD, ABCBCCCD and ACCCCCD

It most cases, it doesn't take very long for a regex engine to find a match:

$ time node -e '/A(B|C+)+D/.test("ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCD")'
0.04s user 0.01s system 95% cpu 0.052 total

$ time node -e '/A(B|C+)+D/.test("ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCX")'
1.79s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 1.812 total

The entire process of testing it against a 30 characters long string takes around ~52ms. But when given an invalid string, it takes nearly two seconds to complete the test, over ten times as long as it took to test a valid string. The dramatic difference is due to the way regular expressions get evaluated.

Most Regex engines will work very similarly (with minor differences). The engine will match the first possible way to accept the current character and proceed to the next one. If it then fails to match the next one, it will backtrack and see if there was another way to digest the previous character. If it goes too far down the rabbit hole only to find out the string doesn’t match in the end, and if many characters have multiple valid regex paths, the number of backtracking steps can become very large, resulting in what is known as catastrophic backtracking.

Let's look at how our expression runs into this problem, using a shorter string: "ACCCX". While it seems fairly straightforward, there are still four different ways that the engine could match those three C's:

1. CCC
2. CC+C
3. C+CC
4. C+C+C.

The engine has to try each of those combinations to see if any of them potentially match against the expression. When you combine that with the other steps the engine must take, we can use RegEx 101 debugger to see the engine has to take a total of 38 steps before it can determine the string doesn't match.

From there, the number of steps the engine must use to validate a string just continues to grow.

By the time the string includes 14 C's, the engine has to take over 65,000 steps just to see if the string is valid. These extreme situations can cause them to work very slowly (exponentially related to input size, as shown above), allowing an attacker to exploit this and can cause the service to excessively consume CPU, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Remediation

Upgrade mongodb to version 3.1.13 or higher.

References

• NPM Security Advisory

Overview

mout is a Modular Utilities

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The deepFillIn function can be used to 'fill missing properties recursively', while the deepMixIn 'mixes objects into the target object, recursively mixing existing child objects as well'. In both cases, the key used to access the target object recursively is not checked.

Details

Prototype Pollution is a vulnerability affecting JavaScript. Prototype Pollution refers to the ability to inject properties into existing JavaScript language construct prototypes, such as objects. JavaScript allows all Object attributes to be altered, including their magical attributes such as __proto__, constructor and prototype. An attacker manipulates these attributes to overwrite, or pollute, a JavaScript application object prototype of the base object by injecting other values. Properties on the Object.prototype are then inherited by all the JavaScript objects through the prototype chain. When that happens, this leads to either denial of service by triggering JavaScript exceptions, or it tampers with the application source code to force the code path that the attacker injects, thereby leading to remote code execution.

There are two main ways in which the pollution of prototypes occurs:

• Unsafe Object recursive merge

• Property definition by path

Unsafe Object recursive merge

The logic of a vulnerable recursive merge function follows the following high-level model:

merge (target, source)

  foreach property of source

    if property exists and is an object on both the target and the source

      merge(target[property], source[property])

    else

      target[property] = source[property]

When the source object contains a property named __proto__ defined with Object.defineProperty() , the condition that checks if the property exists and is an object on both the target and the source passes and the merge recurses with the target, being the prototype of Object and the source of Object as defined by the attacker. Properties are then copied on the Object prototype.

Clone operations are a special sub-class of unsafe recursive merges, which occur when a recursive merge is conducted on an empty object: merge({},source).

lodash and Hoek are examples of libraries susceptible to recursive merge attacks.

Property definition by path

There are a few JavaScript libraries that use an API to define property values on an object based on a given path. The function that is generally affected contains this signature: theFunction(object, path, value)

If the attacker can control the value of “path”, they can set this value to __proto__.myValue. myValue is then assigned to the prototype of the class of the object.

Types of attacks

There are a few methods by which Prototype Pollution can be manipulated:

Affected environments

The following environments are susceptible to a Prototype Pollution attack:

• Application server

• Web server

• Web browser

How to prevent

1. Freeze the prototype— use Object.freeze (Object.prototype).

2. Require schema validation of JSON input.

3. Avoid using unsafe recursive merge functions.

4. Consider using objects without prototypes (for example, Object.create(null)), breaking the prototype chain and preventing pollution.

5. As a best practice use Map instead of Object.

For more information on this vulnerability type:

Arteau, Oliver. “JavaScript prototype pollution attack in NodeJS application.” GitHub, 26 May 2018

Remediation

Upgrade mout to version 1.2.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub Additional Information
• GitHub Additional Information
• GitHub Fix Commit

Overview

mout is a Modular Utilities

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The deepFillIn function can be used to 'fill missing properties recursively', while the deepMixIn mixes objects into the target object, recursively mixing existing child objects as well. In both cases, the key used to access the target object recursively is not checked, leading to exploiting this vulnerability.

Note: This vulnerability derives from an incomplete fix of CVE-2020-7792.

PoC

let mout = require("mout")
let b = {};
let payload = JSON.parse('["constructor.prototype.polluted"]');
mout.object.set(b, payload, "success");
console.log(polluted);

Details

Prototype Pollution is a vulnerability affecting JavaScript. Prototype Pollution refers to the ability to inject properties into existing JavaScript language construct prototypes, such as objects. JavaScript allows all Object attributes to be altered, including their magical attributes such as __proto__, constructor and prototype. An attacker manipulates these attributes to overwrite, or pollute, a JavaScript application object prototype of the base object by injecting other values. Properties on the Object.prototype are then inherited by all the JavaScript objects through the prototype chain. When that happens, this leads to either denial of service by triggering JavaScript exceptions, or it tampers with the application source code to force the code path that the attacker injects, thereby leading to remote code execution.

There are two main ways in which the pollution of prototypes occurs:

• Unsafe Object recursive merge

• Property definition by path

Unsafe Object recursive merge

The logic of a vulnerable recursive merge function follows the following high-level model:

merge (target, source)

  foreach property of source

    if property exists and is an object on both the target and the source

      merge(target[property], source[property])

    else

      target[property] = source[property]

When the source object contains a property named __proto__ defined with Object.defineProperty() , the condition that checks if the property exists and is an object on both the target and the source passes and the merge recurses with the target, being the prototype of Object and the source of Object as defined by the attacker. Properties are then copied on the Object prototype.

Clone operations are a special sub-class of unsafe recursive merges, which occur when a recursive merge is conducted on an empty object: merge({},source).

lodash and Hoek are examples of libraries susceptible to recursive merge attacks.

Property definition by path

There are a few JavaScript libraries that use an API to define property values on an object based on a given path. The function that is generally affected contains this signature: theFunction(object, path, value)

If the attacker can control the value of “path”, they can set this value to __proto__.myValue. myValue is then assigned to the prototype of the class of the object.

Types of attacks

There are a few methods by which Prototype Pollution can be manipulated:

Affected environments

The following environments are susceptible to a Prototype Pollution attack:

• Application server

• Web server

• Web browser

How to prevent

1. Freeze the prototype— use Object.freeze (Object.prototype).

2. Require schema validation of JSON input.

3. Avoid using unsafe recursive merge functions.

4. Consider using objects without prototypes (for example, Object.create(null)), breaking the prototype chain and preventing pollution.

5. As a best practice use Map instead of Object.

For more information on this vulnerability type:

Arteau, Oliver. “JavaScript prototype pollution attack in NodeJS application.” GitHub, 26 May 2018

Remediation

Upgrade mout to version 1.2.4 or higher.

References

• GitHub Additional Information
• GitHub Additional Information
• GitHub Commit
• GitHub PR

Overview

qs is a querystring parser that supports nesting and arrays, with a depth limit.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Prototype Poisoning which allows attackers to cause a Node process to hang, processing an Array object whose prototype has been replaced by one with an excessive length value.

Note: In many typical Express use cases, an unauthenticated remote attacker can place the attack payload in the query string of the URL that is used to visit the application, such as a[__proto__]=b&a[__proto__]&a[length]=100000000.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

• High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

• Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

Remediation

Upgrade qs to version 6.2.4, 6.3.3, 6.4.1, 6.5.3, 6.6.1, 6.7.3, 6.8.3, 6.9.7, 6.10.3 or higher.

References

• GitHub PR
• RedHat Bugzilla Bug
• Researcher Advisory

Overview

base64url Converting to, and from, base64url.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uninitialized Memory Exposure. An attacker could extract sensitive data from uninitialized memory or may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by passing in a large number, in setups where typed user input can be passed (e.g. from JSON).

Details

The Buffer class on Node.js is a mutable array of binary data, and can be initialized with a string, array or number.

const buf1 = new Buffer([1,2,3]);
// creates a buffer containing [01, 02, 03]
const buf2 = new Buffer('test');
// creates a buffer containing ASCII bytes [74, 65, 73, 74]
const buf3 = new Buffer(10);
// creates a buffer of length 10

The first two variants simply create a binary representation of the value it received. The last one, however, pre-allocates a buffer of the specified size, making it a useful buffer, especially when reading data from a stream. When using the number constructor of Buffer, it will allocate the memory, but will not fill it with zeros. Instead, the allocated buffer will hold whatever was in memory at the time. If the buffer is not zeroed by using buf.fill(0), it may leak sensitive information like keys, source code, and system info.

Remediation

Upgrade base64url to version 3.0.0 or higher. Note This is vulnerable only for Node <=4

References

• HackerOne Report
• GitHub Commit