Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'patchmerge

Description

Prototype pollution vulnerability in ‘patchmerge’ versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2
• Patched version(s): 1.0.2

References

• GHSA-84g3-cv89-m9gm
• www.whitesourcesoftware.com
• CVE-2021-25916
• CWE-1321
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Prototype pollution vulnerability in js-extend - CVE-2021-25945
• Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in object-collider - CVE-2021-25914
• jquery-plugin-query-object contains prototype pollution vulnerability - CVE-2021-20083
• Starcounter-Jack JSON-Patch Prototype Pollution vulnerability - CVE-2021-4279

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Tags:

npm

patchmerge