Security vulnerabilities

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Opened by mrdott - 17.03.2024
Last edited by mdugue - 19.03.2024

Bug Title: Prototype Pollution Vulnerability Report
Weakness: Prototype Pollution
Hello Web Security Team,

I am reporting a security vulnerability on the website https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ The website is affected by prototype pollution due to the usage of an outdated jQuery version.

Description:
The website uses jQuery version 1.12.4, which is susceptible to prototype pollution. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject properties into Object.prototype, affecting all objects across the application. Notably, the "deep" version of jQuery $.extend is impacted.

Steps To Reproduce:
1. To check if the application is vulnerable to prototype pollution attack we can use the below command:

command: $.extend(true, {}, JSON.parse('{"__proto__":{"polluted":"hacked"}}'));

2. Now let's open the application URL: https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ and enter into the developer options Console tab and paste the command and hit enter.
Notice that the result contains an option with polluted: hacked

Image:
https://ibb.co/VxyNw4z

Impact:
Prototype pollution introduces a severe risk to the application. An attacker, upon exploiting this vulnerability, can manipulate default values for options passed to functions with an "options" argument—a common pattern in JavaScript applications. The impact escalates based on the application's use of such options, potentially leading to unauthorized modifications and alterations in the application's behavior.

Supporting Material/References:
https://hackerone.com/reports/380873 https://hackerone.com/reports/454365 The vulnerability has been verified on jQuery version 1.12.4, and it is likely to affect older versions.
The issue is present when using Chrome latest version.

Fix:
Update latest version of jquery 3.7.1 is the best remediation as it has no known vulnerabilities at the time of this writing