CVE-2024-56143
HIGH8.2EPSS 0.02%Strapi Allows Unauthorized Access to Private Fields via parms.lookup
Description
### Summary It's possible to access any private fields by filtering through the lookup parameters ### Details Using the new lookup operator provided by the document service in Strapi 5, it is not properly sanitizing this query operator for private fields. ### PoC 1. Create a strapi app. 2. Create a content-type 3. In the content-type you make a new entry 4. Go back to the list view 4. Add `&lookup[updatedBy][password][$startsWith]=$2` to the end of your url (All passwords start with $2) see that all entries are still there 6. Add `&lookup[updatedBy][password][$startsWith]=$3` see the entry disappear proving that the search above works ### Impact An attacker can perform filtering attacks on everything related to the object, including admin passwords and reset-tokens. This means that they can gain full access to the strapi instance.
Affected packages (1)
- npm/@strapi/core>= 5.0.0, < 5.5.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |