Prototype Pollution in Dynamoose

Impact

In Dynamoose versions 2.0.0-2.6.0 there was a prototype pollution vulnerability in the internal utility method lib/utils/object/set.ts. This method is used throughout the codebase for various operations throughout Dynamoose.

We have not seen any evidence of this vulnerability being exploited.

We do not believe this issue impacts v1.x.x since this method was added as part of the v2 rewrite. This vulnerability also impacts v2.x.x beta/alpha versions.

Patches

v2.7.0 includes a patch for this vulnerability.

Workarounds

We are unaware of any workarounds to patch this vulnerability other than upgrading to v2.7.0 or greater.

References

• Patch commit hash: 324c62b4709204955931a187362f8999805b1d8e

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Credit

• GitHub CodeQL Code Scanning