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

CVE-2024-38983

High
9.8/10

Summary

Prototype Pollution in alykoshin mini-deep-assign v0.0.8 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service (DoS) and cause other impacts via the _assign() method at (/lib/index.js:91)

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

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