CVE-2023-0163

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0163
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-0163.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-0163
Aliases
Published
2024-11-26T11:36:26.574Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:48:59.201357943Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Prototype Pollution in convict
Details

Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') vulnerability in Mozilla Convict.

This allows an attacker to inject attributes that are used in other components, or to override existing attributes with ones that have incompatible type, which may lead to a crash.

The main use case of Convict is for handling server-side configurations written by the admins owning the servers, and not random users. So it's unlikely that an admin would deliberately sabotage their own server. Still, a situation can happen where an admin not knowledgeable about JavaScript could be tricked by an attacker into writing the malicious JavaScript code into some config files.

This issue affects Convict: before 6.2.4.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0163.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mozilla",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1321"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mozilla/node-convict

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:convict:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "6.2.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.2.3
v0.3.0
v0.3.1
v0.3.3
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.5.0
v0.5.1
v1.*
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.1.2
v1.1.3
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v3.*
v3.0.0
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.1.0
v4.2.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.3.2
v4.4.0
v4.4.1
v5.*
v5.0.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.2
v5.1.0
v5.2.0
v6.*
v6.0.0
v6.0.1
v6.1.0
v6.2.0
v6.2.1
v6.2.2
v6.2.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-0163.json"