CVE-2019-10790 — taffydb npm module, vulnerable in all versions up to and including 2

taffydb npm module, vulnerable in all versions up to and including 2.7.3, allows attackers to forge adding additional properties into user-input processed by taffy which can allow access to any data items in the DB. taffy sets an internal index for each data item in its DB. Howev

01What is this vulnerability?

taffydb npm module, vulnerable in all versions up to and including 2.7.3, allows attackers to forge adding additional properties into user-input processed by taffy which can allow access to any data items in the DB. taffy sets an internal index for each data item in its DB. However, it is found that the internal index can be forged by adding additional properties into user-input. If index is…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / taffy npm module	All versions including 2.6.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:32:01.575Z

09References

• snyk.io — https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TAFFY-546521
• security.snyk.io — https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TAFFYDB-2992450