Description
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Furqan node-whois. Affected is an unknown function of the file index.coffee. The manipulation leads to improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes ('prototype pollution'). It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is 46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216252.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/commit/46ccc2aee8d063c7b6b4dee2c2834113b7286076
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FurqanSoftware/node-whois/pull/105
Third Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?id.216252
Scores
CVSS v3
6.3
EPSS
0.0094
EPSS Percentile
56.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-74
CWE-1321
Status
published
Products (2)
furqansofware/node_whois
npm/whois
0 - 2.13.6npm
Published
Dec 19, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026