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Prototype Pollution in protobufjs

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Description

The package protobufjs is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution, which can allow an attacker to add/modify properties of the Object.prototype. Versions after and including 6.10.0 until 6.10.3 and after and including 6.11.0 until 6.11.3 are vulnerable.

This vulnerability can occur in multiple ways:

  1. by providing untrusted user input to util.

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): **>= 6.10.0, < 6.10.3 >= 6.11.0, < 6.11.3**
  • Patched version(s): **6.10.3 6.11.3**

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