CVE-2016-10533: Express-Restify-Mongoose Project Express-Restify-Mongoose

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

express-restify-mongoose is a module to easily create a flexible REST interface for mongoose models. express-restify-mongoose 2.4.2 and earlier and 3.0.X through 3.0.1 allows a malicious user to send a request for `GET /User?distinct=password` and get all the passwords for all the users in the database, despite the field being set to private. This can be used for other private data if the malicious user knew what was set as private for specific routes.

Affected products

• Express-Restify-Mongoose Project Express-Restify-Mongoose: up to and including 2.4.2; from 3.0.0, up to and including 3.0.1

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.