CVE-2018-16487 (GCVE-0-2018-16487)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-01 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:24
VLAI
Summary
A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash <4.17.11 where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.
Severity
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HackerOne lodash Affected: <4.7.11
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Date Public
2019-02-01 00:00
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