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Security checkAugust 12, 2025

Prototype Pollution in lodash - lodash.update

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Description

Versions of lodash prior to 4.17.19 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The functions pick, set, setWith, update, updateWith, and zipObjectDeep allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object if the property identifiers are user-supplied.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 4.10.2

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