Description
aurelia-path is part of the Aurelia platform and contains utilities for path manipulation. There is a prototype pollution vulnerability in aurelia-path before version 1.1.7. The vulnerability exposes Aurelia application that uses `aurelia-path` package to parse a string. The majority of this will be Aurelia applications that employ the `aurelia-router` package. An example is this could allow an attacker to change the prototype of base object class `Object` by tricking an application to parse the following URL: `https://aurelia.io/blog/?__proto__[asdf]=asdf`. The problem is patched in version `1.1.7`.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/aurelia/path/releases/tag/1.1.7
https://github.com/aurelia/path/issues/44
https://github.com/aurelia/path/security/advisories/GHSA-3c9c-2p65-qvwv
https://www.npmjs.com/package/aurelia-path
https://github.com/aurelia/path/commit/7c4e235433a4a2df9acc313fbe891758084fdec1
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