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CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVE-2023-26136
Tough Cookie Prototype Pollution Vulnerability
Description

Versions of the package tough-cookie before 4.1.3 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution due to improper handling of Cookies when using CookieJar in rejectPublicSuffixes=false mode. This issue arises from the manner in which the objects are initialized.

INFO

Published Date :

July 1, 2023, 5:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 7:50 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Salesforce tough-cookie
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL [email protected]
Solution
This vulnerability requires updating the package or upgrading the IBM Cognos Analytics product.
  • Update the affected package.
  • Upgrade to a later version of IBM Cognos Analytics.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2023-26136 has a 21 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2023-26136.

URL Resource
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/12d474791bb856004e858fdb1c47b7608d09cf6e Patch
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/282 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/releases/tag/v4.1.3 Release Notes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00010.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3HUE6ZR5SL73KHL7XUPAOEL6SB7HUDT2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PVVPNSAGSDS63HQ74PJ7MZ3MU5IYNVZ/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOUGHCOOKIE-5672873 Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/12d474791bb856004e858fdb1c47b7608d09cf6e Patch
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/282 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/releases/tag/v4.1.3 Release Notes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00010.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3HUE6ZR5SL73KHL7XUPAOEL6SB7HUDT2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PVVPNSAGSDS63HQ74PJ7MZ3MU5IYNVZ/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOUGHCOOKIE-5672873 Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2023-26136 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2023-26136 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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JavaScript TypeScript Batchfile Shell

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 8, 2025, 8:03 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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guy2610/tough-cookie-patch-cve-2023-26136

None

Dockerfile JavaScript

Updated: 4 days, 6 hours ago
0 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : July 28, 2025, 6:01 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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uriyahav/tough-cookie-2.5.0-cve-2023-26136-fix

ecurity patch for CVE-2023-26136 in tough-cookie 2.5.0 - Prototype pollution vulnerability fix with backward compatibility

JavaScript

Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 18, 2025, 7:27 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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cfvalenzuela-vidal/safenotes

None

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Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : June 17, 2025, 5:12 p.m. This repo has been linked 8 different CVEs too.
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None

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Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 13, 2025, 8:50 a.m. This repo has been linked 891 different CVEs too.
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AlbertoChar/tough-cookie-demo

None

JavaScript

Updated: 6 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 10, 2025, 4:09 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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morrisel/CVE-2023-26136

This repository contains a solution for the CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability.

JavaScript

Updated: 6 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 7, 2025, 8:05 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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dani33339/tough-cookie-SealSecurity

CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability research

JavaScript

Updated: 6 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 4, 2025, 10:33 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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dani33339/Tough-Cookie-v2.5.0-Patched

CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability research

Dockerfile JavaScript

Updated: 6 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 4, 2025, 10:58 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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BigBuildBench/mathworks_MATLAB-language-server

None

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Updated: 9 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 17, 2024, 1:30 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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m-lito13/SealSecurity_Exam

Fix prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2023-26136) for tough-cookie package

JavaScript

Updated: 11 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 2, 2024, 6:50 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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shaharduany/tough-cookie-v2.5.0-patch

This is a branch demonstrating the patch done to tough-cookie v2.5.0 with the prototype pollution security risk fix

JavaScript

Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 14, 2024, 10:32 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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ronmadar/Open-Source-Seal-Security

Fix open source package uses tough-cookie 2.5.0 - CVE-2023-26136,

JavaScript

Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 6, 2024, 5:32 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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ronmadar/Open-Source-Package-Seal-Security

Fix open source package uses tough-cookie 2.5.0 to process their clients' cookies. Unfortunately, it is affected by CVE-2023-26136.

JavaScript

Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 5, 2024, 2:27 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-26136 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/12d474791bb856004e858fdb1c47b7608d09cf6e
    Added Reference https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/282
    Added Reference https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/releases/tag/v4.1.3
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00010.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3HUE6ZR5SL73KHL7XUPAOEL6SB7HUDT2/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PVVPNSAGSDS63HQ74PJ7MZ3MU5IYNVZ/
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
    Added Reference https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOUGHCOOKIE-5672873
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Snyk https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 28, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Snyk https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PVVPNSAGSDS63HQ74PJ7MZ3MU5IYNVZ/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Snyk https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/3HUE6ZR5SL73KHL7XUPAOEL6SB7HUDT2/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Snyk CWE-1321
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 10, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00010.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 08, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/12d474791bb856004e858fdb1c47b7608d09cf6e No Types Assigned https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/12d474791bb856004e858fdb1c47b7608d09cf6e Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/282 No Types Assigned https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/282 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/releases/tag/v4.1.3 No Types Assigned https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/releases/tag/v4.1.3 Release Notes
    Changed Reference Type https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOUGHCOOKIE-5672873 No Types Assigned https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOUGHCOOKIE-5672873 Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-1321
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:salesforce:tough-cookie:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.1.3
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 9.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

6.87 }} 0.50%

score

0.90953

percentile