Prototype Pollution in dot-object

Description

dot-object before 2.1.3 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The set function could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a proto payload.

Recommendation

Update the dot-object package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.1.3
• Patched version(s): 2.1.3

References

• GHSA-j9cf-pr2x-5273
• snyk.io
• CVE-2019-10793
• CWE-74
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype Pollution in deeply - CVE-2019-10750
• dot-lens vulnerable to Prototype Pollution - CVE-2023-26106
• Prototype Pollution in async merge-object - CVE-2018-3753
• Prototype Pollution in madlib-object-utils - CVE-2022-24279

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Tags:

npm

dot-object