subleveldown@1.1.0

Vulnerabilities

 2 via 2 paths

Dependencies

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Source

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high severity

Remote Memory Exposure

  • Vulnerable module: bl
  • Introduced through: levelup@0.19.1

Detailed paths

  • Introduced through: subleveldown@1.1.0 › levelup@0.19.1 › bl@0.8.2
    Remediation: Upgrade to levelup@1.0.0.

Overview

bl is a library that allows you to collect buffers and access with a standard readable buffer interface.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Memory Exposure. If user input ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.

PoC by chalker

const { BufferList } = require('bl')
const secret = require('crypto').randomBytes(256)
for (let i = 0; i < 1e6; i++) {
  const clone = Buffer.from(secret)
  const bl = new BufferList()
  bl.append(Buffer.from('a'))
  bl.consume(-1024)
  const buf = bl.slice(1)
  if (buf.indexOf(clone) !== -1) {
    console.error(`Match (at ${i})`, buf)
  }
}

Remediation

Upgrade bl to version 2.2.1, 3.0.1, 4.0.3, 1.2.3 or higher.

References

Remote Memory Exposure vulnerability report

medium severity

Uninitialized Memory Exposure

  • Vulnerable module: bl
  • Introduced through: levelup@0.19.1

Detailed paths

  • Introduced through: subleveldown@1.1.0 › levelup@0.19.1 › bl@0.8.2
    Remediation: Upgrade to levelup@1.0.0.

Overview

bl is a storage object for collections of Node Buffers.

A possible memory disclosure vulnerability exists when a value of type number is provided to the append() method and results in concatenation of uninitialized memory to the buffer collection.

This is a result of unobstructed use of the Buffer constructor, whose insecure default constructor increases the odds of memory leakage.

Details

Constructing a Buffer class with integer N creates a Buffer of length N with raw (not "zero-ed") memory.

In the following example, the first call would allocate 100 bytes of memory, while the second example will allocate the memory needed for the string "100":

// uninitialized Buffer of length 100
x = new Buffer(100);
// initialized Buffer with value of '100'
x = new Buffer('100');

bl's append function uses the default Buffer constructor as-is, making it easy to append uninitialized memory to an existing list. If the value of the buffer list is exposed to users, it may expose raw server side memory, potentially holding secrets, private data and code. This is a similar vulnerability to the infamous Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL.

const BufferList = require('bl')

var bl = new BufferList()
bl.append(new Buffer('abcd'))
bl.append(new Buffer('efg'))
bl.append('100')
// appends a Buffer holding 100 bytes of uninitialized memory
bl.append(100)                     
bl.append(new Buffer('j'))

You can read more about the insecure Buffer behavior on our blog.

Similar vulnerabilities were discovered in request, mongoose, ws and sequelize.

Note This is vulnerable only for Node <=4

References

Uninitialized Memory Exposure vulnerability report