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ghsa-h47j-hc6x-h3qq

Vulnerability from github

Published

2019-12-30 19:30

Modified

2025-02-07 18:01

Severity ?

9.9 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in NPM mongo-express

Details

Impact

Remote code execution on the host machine by any authenticated user.

Proof Of Concept

Launching mongo-express on a Mac, pasting the following into the "create index" field will pop open the Mac calculator:

javascript this.constructor.constructor("return process")().mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator')

Patches

Users should upgrade to version 0.54.0

Workarounds

Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?

References

Snyk Security Advisory CVE

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in example link to repo * Email us at example email address

Thanks

@JLLeitschuh for finding and reporting this vulnerability

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  "modified": "2025-02-07T18:01:54Z",
  "published": "2019-12-30T19:30:31Z",
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    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/commit/7d365141deadbd38fa961cd835ce68eab5731494"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in NPM mongo-express"
}

cve-2019-10758

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-12-24 21:08

Modified

2025-02-07 12:54

Severity ?

9.9 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

mongo-express before 0.54.0 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via endpoints that uses the `toBSON` method. A misuse of the `vm` dependency to perform `exec` commands in a non-safe environment.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MONGOEXPRESS-473215	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	mongo-express	Version: All versions prior to version 0.54.0

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ghsa-h47j-hc6x-h3qq

Vulnerability from github

Impact

Proof Of Concept

Patches

Workarounds

References

For more information

Thanks

cve-2019-10758

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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