Private Data Disclosure Affecting express-restify-mongoose package, versions < 2.5.0 >= 3.0.0 <3.1.0
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:express-restify-mongoose:20160419
- published 22 Jun 2016
- disclosed 19 Apr 2016
- credit Stefan Mirea
Introduced: 19 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-10533 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Update to version 3.1.0 or newer on the 3.x branch, or to version 2.5.0 or newer on the 2.x branch.
Overview
express-restify-mongoose is a module to easily create a flexible REST interface for mongoose models.
It supports marking certain fields as private, to keep from exposing them to users, but fails to remove those fields from certain output scenarios, resulting in potential private data exposure.
For instance, if you have the following User model:
const User = mongoose.model('User', new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
password: String,
}));
To keep from exposing the password, you'll likely to want to call it out as a private field like so:
restify.serve(router, User, {
private: ['password'],
})
This will indeed result in the password field not showing when you request an item, for instance via GET /User or GET /User/some-id.
However, when querying on that field, using GET /User?distinct=password, ALL passwords for ALL the users in the DB would be shown.