CVE-2024-12629
Published: 12 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-12629 is a medium-severity Prototype Pollution (CWE-1321) vulnerability in Progress Kendoreact. Its CVSS base score is 4.1 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 16.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-12629 is a prototype pollution vulnerability in Progress Telerik KendoReact versions v3.5.0 through v9.4.0. It enables an attacker to introduce or modify properties within the global prototype chain, which can lead to denial of service or command injection. The issue is classified under CWE-1321 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Exploitation is possible over the network by an attacker with high privileges, though it requires high attack complexity and no user interaction. Upon success, the attacker can achieve low-level impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, aligning with the potential for denial of service or command injection as described.
The Telerik knowledge base provides details on mitigation in their security advisory at https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/components/knowledge-base/kb-security-protoype-pollution-2024-12629.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51009
Vulnerability details
In Progress® Telerik® KendoReact versions v3.5.0 through v9.4.0, an attacker can introduce or modify properties within the global prototype chain which can result in denial of service or command injection.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Prototype pollution enables network exploitation of the app (T1190) and facilitates JS-based command injection (T1059.007) or application-layer DoS via crafted properties (T1499.004).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses the prototype pollution flaw in KendoReact by requiring timely identification, prioritization, and remediation of the vulnerability via patching.
Prevents exploitation by validating and sanitizing untrusted inputs to KendoReact components, blocking malicious property modifications to the global prototype chain.
Mitigates the high privilege requirement (PR:H) for exploitation by enforcing least privilege, limiting who can supply inputs capable of polluting the prototype.