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

• Lodash has Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in `_.unset` and `_.omit` functions - CVE-2025-13465
• Lodash has Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in `_.unset` and `_.omit` functions - lodash-es - CVE-2025-13465
• Lodash has Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in `_.unset` and `_.omit` functions - lodash-amd - CVE-2025-13465
• Lodash has Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in `_.unset` and `_.omit` functions - lodash.unset - CVE-2025-13465

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