Prototype Pollution in mout

Description

This affects all versions of package mout. The deepFillIn function can be used to ‘fill missing properties recursively’, while the deepMixIn mixes objects into the target object, recursively mixing existing child objects as well.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): <= 1.2.3
• Patched version(s): 1.2.4

References

• GHSA-vvv8-xw5f-3f88
• snyk.io
• CVE-2022-21213
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Parse Server is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via Cloud Code Webhooks - CVE-2022-41879
• Remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution - CVE-2022-39396

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Tags:

npm

mout