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Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

CVE-2018-16487

Medium
5.6/10

Summary

A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-1321 - Prototype Pollution

Prototype pollution is one of the lesser-known vulnerabilities. It allows attackers to abuse the rules of JavaScript by injecting properties into the general object “Object” in JS. Modifying the prototype of “Object” affects the behavior of all objects in the entire app, potentially resulting in denial of service, arbitrary code execution, cross-site scripting, etc.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published