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CVE-2023-6460: fix: Don't allow serialization of firestore settings by abhishekwebcode · Pull Request #1742 · googleapis/nodejs-firestore

A potential logging of the firestore key via logging within nodejs-firestore exists - Developers who were logging objects through this._settings would be logging the firestore key as well potentially exposing it to anyone with logs read access. We recommend upgrading to version 6.1.0 to avoid this issue

12 months ago

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#web #google #nodejs #js

When logging any firestore object like WriteBatch,Transaction,etc the settings object also gets logged / exposed
This can be seen by running JSON.stringify on any firestore object even a document reference
Many developers log firestore objects to help them debug testing/prod issues, this leaking of entire firestore key via this._settings is a bad practice as per me
We can also use Object.defineProperty to make it non-enumerable or any other technique that you like

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Fixes #<issue_number_goes_here> 🦕