Service interruption via unchecked prototype path assignment
Published Feb 5, 2025 · Updated Feb 6, 2025
Prototype pollution in utile 0.3.0 allows remote attackers to interrupt a Node.js service through a crafted createPath payload. lib.createPath follows attacker-supplied path segments without rejecting proto, so its assignment writes a chosen property onto Object.prototype for every object in the process. The calling application must pass attacker-controlled path data to the library; successful pollution can trigger process-wide exceptions and interrupt the service.
Summary
What happened
Prototype pollution in utile 0.3.0 allows remote attackers to interrupt a Node.js service through a crafted createPath payload. lib.createPath follows attacker-supplied path segments without rejecting proto, so its assignment writes a chosen property onto Object.prototype for every object in the process. The calling application must pass attacker-controlled path data to the library; successful pollution can trigger process-wide exceptions and interrupt the service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-57065
- Published
- Feb 5, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 6, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-1321, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 5, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- createPath prototype-pollution proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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