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Prototype pollution in class-transformer

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Medium severitynpmclass-transformer

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Description

class-transformer through 0.2.3 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The ‘classToPlainFromExist’ function could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of ‘Object.prototype’ using a ‘proto’ payload.

Recommendation

Update the class-transformer package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 0.3.1
  • Patched version(s): 0.3.1

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