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Critical CVE-2026-33863 GHSA-hf2r-9gf9-rwch

Convict has prototype pollution via load(), loadFile(), and schema initialization

Published Mar 26, 2026 · Updated Mar 26, 2026 · Assigned by GHSA

Description

### Impact
Two unguarded prototype pollution paths exist, not covered by previous fixes:

1. `config.load()` / `config.loadFile()` — `overlay()` recursively merges config data without checking for forbidden keys. Input containing` __proto__` or `constructor.prototype` (e.g. from a JSON file) causes the recursion to reach `Object.prototype` and write attacker-controlled values onto it.
2. Schema initialization — passing a schema with `constructor.prototype.*` keys to `convict({...})` causes default-value propagation to write directly to `Object.prototype` at startup.

Depending on how polluted properties are consumed, impact ranges from unexpected behavior to authentication bypass or RCE.

### Workarounds
Do not pass untrusted data to load(), loadFile(), or convict().

### Resources
Prior advisory: [GHSA-44fc-8fm5-q62h](https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/security/advisories/GHSA-44fc-8fm5-q62h)
Related issue: [https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/423](https://github.com/mozilla/node-convict/issues/423)

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm convict < 6.2.5 6.2.5 GHSA-hf2r-9gf9-rwch

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