angular Prototype Pollution vulnerability

Description

Versions of angular prior to 1.7.9 are vulnerable to prototype pollution. The deprecated API function merge() does not restrict the modification of an Object’s prototype in the , which may allow an attacker to add or modify an existing property that will exist on all objects.

Recommendation

Update the angular package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

Affected version(s): < 1.7.9
Patched version(s): 1.7.9

References

GHSA-89mq-4x47-5v83
snyk.io
lists.apache.org
CVE-2019-10768
CWE-1321
CWE-20
CWE-915
CAPEC-310

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