Vigil@nce - Node.js systeminformation: privilege escalation via Prototype Pollution
April 2021 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Tivoli Storage Manager, Nodejs Modules not
comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, data creation/edition.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 09/02/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via Prototype Pollution of
Node.js systeminformation, in order to escalate his privileges.
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