pentester.land· Nov 11, 2022· by Mikhail Shcherbakov, Musard Balliu, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

Silent Spring: Prototype Pollution Leads to Remote Code Execution in Node.js

Target Program: Rocket.Chat, NPM CLI, Parse Server, Node.js

🎯 Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution (RCE)

💡 Defense Fix: Avoid executing shell commands via system(). Use parameterized APIs and strict input sanitization.

#RCE#Prototype pollution#DoS