SB2019020111 - Multiple vulnerabilities in lodash

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16487)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep functions. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and add or modify properties of Object.prototype.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of the affected application.

2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1010266)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the software does not properly parse user-supplied input in the Date Handler component. A remote authenticated attacker can send long strings that submit malicious input, which the library attempts to match using a regular expression and consume excessive amounts of CPU resources and cause a DoS condition.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://hackerone.com/reports/380873
• https://github.com/lodash/lodash/issues/3359
• https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog