CVE-2022-37601

Prototype pollution vulnerability in function parseQuery in parseQuery.js in webpack loader-utils via the name variable in parseQuery.js. This affects all versions prior to 1.4.1 and 2.0.3.

Weakness

The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/180.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/77.html

References

• http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L11
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L47
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212#issuecomment-1319192884
• https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00044.html
• http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
• https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L11
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L47
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
• https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212#issuecomment-1319192884
• https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00044.html