PT-2021-16846 · Unknown · Patchmerge

Published 2021-03-16 · Updated 2023-08-08 · CVE-2021-25916

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions patchmerge versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.1

Description The issue allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution due to a prototype pollution vulnerability.

Recommendations For patchmerge versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.1, update to a version that fixes the prototype pollution vulnerability to prevent potential denial of service and remote code execution attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Prototype Pollution

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-1321

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-25916

GHSA-84G3-CV89-M9GM

Affected Products

Patchmerge

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/pjshumphreys/patchmerge/commit/5b383c537eae7a00ebd26d3f7211dac99ddecb12 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25916 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25916 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-25916 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-84g3-cv89-m9gm · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/pjshumphreys/patchmerge · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/11449 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/24967 · Telegram Post