Prototype Pollution in paypal-adaptive sdk for Paypal Adaptive Payments API



Risk Medium
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2020-7642
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available.
Vulnerable software
 paypal-adaptive
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor Ideame

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Prototype Pollution

EUVDB-ID: #VU26998

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7642

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the "PayPal" function in "__proto__" payload. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request and add or modify properties of Object.prototype.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

paypal-adaptive: 0.1.0 - 0.4.2

CPE2.3 External links

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PAYPALADAPTIVE-565089
https://github.com/Ideame/paypal-adaptive-sdk-nodejs/blob/master/lib/paypal-adaptive.js#L31


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, proof of concept for this vulnerability is available.



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