critical
CVE-2022-21190
convict: A Prototype Pollution Vulnerbility in convict
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).
Description
This affects the package convict before 6.2.3. This is a bypass of [CVE-2022-22143](https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CONVICT-2340604). The [fix](https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/commit/3b86be087d8f14681a9c889d45da7fe3ad9cd880) introduced, relies on the startsWith method and does not prevent the vulnerability: before splitting the path, it checks if it starts with __proto__ or this.constructor.prototype. To bypass this check it's possible to prepend the dangerous paths with any string value followed by a dot, like for example foo.__proto__ or foo.this.constructor.prototype.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| npm::GitHub Security Advisory npm | convict | 6.2.3 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21190
- https://gist.github.com/dellalibera/cebce20e51410acebff1f46afdc89808
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/blob/3b86be087d8f14681a9c889d45da7fe3ad9cd880/packages/convict/src/main.js%23L571
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md%23623---2022-05-07
- https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/commit/1ea0ab19c5208f66509e1c43b0d0f21c1fd29b75
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21190
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CONVICT-2774757