CVE-2023-0163

Description

### Impact * An attacker can inject attributes that are used in other components * An attacker can override existing attributes with ones that have incompatible type, which may lead to a crash. The main use case of Convict is for handling server-side configurations written by the admins owning the servers, and not random users. So it's unlikely that an admin would deliberately sabotage their own server. Still a situation can happen where an admin not knowledgeable about JavaScript could be tricked by an attacker into writing the malicious JavaScript code into some config files. ### Patches The problem is patched in `[email protected]`. Users should upgrade to `[email protected]`. ### Workarounds No way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading ### References https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/410

How to fix CVE-2023-0163

To remediate CVE-2023-0163, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 6.2.4 or later

Is CVE-2023-0163 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 6.2.4

CVSS scores

References (5)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0163
• PATCHgithub.com/mozilla/node-convict
• WEBgithub.com/mozilla/node-convict/commit/fb602fbe1e9f14f2e88ecb8179d0f76466d21ecb
• WEBgithub.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/410