Prototype Pollution in algoliasearch-helper

Description

The package algoliasearch-helper before 3.6.2 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution due to use of the merge function in src/SearchParameters/index.jsSearchParameters._parseNumbers without any protection against prototype properties.

Recommendation

Update the algoliasearch-helper package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.6.2
• Patched version(s): 3.6.2

References

• GHSA-vpf5-82c8-9v36
• snyk.io
• CVE-2021-23433
• CWE-1321
• CWE-915
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A8

Related Issues

• algoliasearch-helper is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in _merge() - CVE-2025-3193
• Prototype Pollution in the merge and clone helper methods - CVE-2021-39227
• Prototype pollution in min-dash - CVE-2021-23460
• json-schema is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution - CVE-2021-3918

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Tags:

npm

algoliasearch-helper