Cache Poisoning Vulnerability

Description

An attacker controlling the second variable of the translate function is able to perform a cache poisoning attack. They can change the outcome of translation requests made by subsequent users.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 3.0.0
• Patched version(s): 3.0.0

References

• GHSA-882j-4vj5-7vmj
• CVE-2024-29042
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Nuxt: `__nuxt_island` endpoint does not bind responses to request props, enabling shared-cache poisoning - CVE-2026-46342
• Astro: Cache Poisoning due to incorrect error handling when if-match header is malformed - CVE-2026-41322
• sanitize-html Information Exposure vulnerability - CVE-2024-21501
• mapshaper Path Traversal vulnerability - CVE-2024-1163

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Tags:

npm

translate