Information Exposure Affecting mongoose package, versions <4.13.21 >=5.0.0 <5.7.5


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.19% (57th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-MONGOOSE-472486
  • published 10 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 10 Jul 2019
  • credit xiaofen9

How to fix?

Upgrade mongoose to version 4.13.21, 5.7.5 or higher.

Overview

mongoose is a Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Any query object with a _bsontype attribute is ignored, allowing attackers to bypass access control.