devalue prototype pollution vulnerability

Description

A string passed to devalue.parse could represent an object with a __proto__ property, which would assign a prototype to an object while allowing properties to be overwritten:

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 5.3.2
• Patched version(s): 5.3.2

References

• GHSA-vj54-72f3-p5jv
• CVE-2025-57820
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Directory Traversal in node-simple-router - CVE-2017-16083
• csvjson vulnerable to prototype injection - CVE-2025-57318
• Prebid.js NPM package briefly compromised - CVE-2025-59038
• js-toml Prototype Pollution Vulnerability - CVE-2025-54803

Tags:

npm

devalue