CVE-2018-3728

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2018-02-15
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1545893: CVE-2018-3728 hoek: Prototype pollution in utilities function

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2018-3728 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 2.9
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6 RHSA-2018:1264 2018-04-30
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6 RHSA-2018:1263 2018-04-30

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-nodejs6-nodejs-hoek Affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-nodejs4-nodejs-hoek Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 nodejs-hoek Will not fix
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 nodejs-hoek Affected

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