Prototype Pollution in the merge and clone helper methods

Description

Using merge and clone helper methods in the src/core/util.ts module will have prototype pollution. It will affect the popular data visualization library Apache ECharts, which is using and exported these two methods directly.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **<= 4.3.2

  >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.1**

• Patched version(s): **4.3.3

  5.2.1**

References

• GHSA-fhv8-fx5f-7fxf
• CVE-2021-39227
• CWE-1321
• CWE-915
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A8

Related Issues

• algoliasearch-helper is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in _merge() - CVE-2025-3193
• @ianwalter/merge Prototype Pollution via `merge` function - CVE-2021-23397
• Prototype Pollution in algoliasearch-helper - CVE-2021-23433
• Prototype Pollution in merge-change - CVE-2021-23421

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npm

zrender