CVE-2026-113662: ApostropheCMS import-export: NoSQL injection via update-key value lets a crafted import match and overwrite an unidentified document
@apostrophecms/import-export’s update-by-key feature lets an imported
document carry a <field>:key property (for example slug:key) whose
value is used to find an existing document to update instead of inserting
a new one. getUpdateKey()/insertOrUpdateDocWithKey()
(lib/methods/import.js) use that value directly as a MongoDB query value
with no laundering:
const matchingDraftPromise = manager.findForEditing(
req.clone({ mode: 'draft' }),
{
aposMode: 'draft',
[updateField]: doc[updateKey]
}).toObject();
Archive documents are parsed with EJSON (see lib/formats/gzip.js), which
revives objects such as { $ne: null } as live values, the same untrusted
data source and revival mechanism already fixed once in this module for
findSingletonAposDocId/findParkedAposDocId in GHSA-79qf-vqgc-7xx3. That
fix did not touch insertOrUpdateDocWithKey, so the identical class of bug
survives here: a crafted "slug:key": { "$ne": null } entry in an
archive’s aposDocs.json makes the import match (and then update) an
existing document the archive’s author never actually identified, instead
of failing to find a match.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqw5-w6h3-44g6
- github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/9500b8b0e1d630d5e07fbb5fd2c25ed0943845ce
- github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commit/f84fd41cbf6c22eb8d0008fc9c25df1f7130b350
- github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/releases/tag/@apostrophecms/import-export@3.7.0
- github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/security/advisories/GHSA-jqw5-w6h3-44g6
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113662
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