Prototype Pollution in lodash - lodash

Description

Versions of lodash before 4.17.11 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.

The vulnerable functions are ‘defaultsDeep’, ‘merge’, and ‘mergeWith’ which allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via {constructor: {prototype: {...}}} causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 4.17.11
• Patched version(s): 4.17.11

References

• GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574
• hackerone.com
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2018-16487
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype Pollution in lodash - CVE-2018-3721
• Prototype Pollution in lodash - lodash - GHSA-jf85-cpcp-j695 - CVE-2019-10744
• Prototype Pollution in lodash - lodash-amd - CVE-2019-10744
• Prototype Pollution in lodash - lodash.defaultsdeep - CVE-2019-10744

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Tags:

npm

lodash