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CVE-2018-3728

Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID)

Published: Mar 30, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
2.9 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3728
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/471.html

hoek node module before 4.2.0 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability via merge and applyToDefaults functions, which allows a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via proto, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

Weakness

The product does not properly protect an assumed-immutable element from being modified by an attacker.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
HoekHapijs*4.2.0 (excluding)
HoekHapijs5.0.0 (including)5.0.3 (excluding)
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatfh-system-dump-tool-0:1.0.0-5.el7*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatfping-0:3.10-4.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatnagios-0:4.0.8-8.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatnagios-plugins-0:2.0.3-3.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatperl-Crypt-CBC-0:2.33-2.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatperl-Crypt-DES-0:2.05-20.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatperl-Net-SNMP-0:6.0.1-7.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatphantomjs-0:1.9.7-3.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatpython-meld3-0:0.6.10-1.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatqstat-0:2.11-13.20080912svn311.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatradiusclient-ng-0:0.5.6-9.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatredis-0:2.8.21-2.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap-fh-openshift-templates-0:4.6.0-5.el7*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap-mod_authnz_external-0:3.3.1-7.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatsendEmail-0:1.56-2.el7*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatssmtp-0:2.64-14.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatsupervisor-0:3.1.3-3.el7map*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-aaa:1.1.3-4*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-appstore:2.1.2-3*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-mbaas:6.0.3-2*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-messaging:3.2.0-4*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-metrics:3.2.0-5*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-ngui:5.19.3-1*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-scm:1.1.4-2*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-sdks:1.0.0-36*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-statsd:2.1.3-4*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/fh-supercore:5.0.10-2*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/gitlab-shell:2.1.2-16*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/httpd:2.4-47*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/installer:1.0.0-42*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/memcached:1.4.15-32*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/millicore:7.55.0-4*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/mongodb:3.2-36*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/mysql:5.5-28*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/nagios:4.0.8-58*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/redis:2.8.21-40*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/ups-eap:1.1.4-35*
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6RedHatrhmap46/wildcard-proxy:1.0.0-17*
Red Hat Quay 3RedHatquay/quay-rhel8:v3.6.0-62*
Node-hoekUbuntuartful*
Node-hoekUbuntubionic*
Node-hoekUbuntucosmic*
Node-hoekUbuntudisco*
Node-hoekUbuntueoan*
Node-hoekUbuntufocal*
Node-hoekUbuntugroovy*
Node-hoekUbuntuhirsute*
Node-hoekUbuntuimpish*
Node-hoekUbuntukinetic*
Node-hoekUbuntulunar*
Node-hoekUbuntumantic*
Node-hoekUbuntuoracular*
Node-hoekUbuntuplucky*

Potential Mitigations

References

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