CVE-2025-66456 (GCVE-0-2025-66456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 19:43 – Updated: 2025-12-09 20:35
VLAI
Title
Elysia vulnerable to prototype pollution with multiple standalone schema validation
Summary
Elysia is a Typescript framework for request validation, type inference, OpenAPI documentation and client-server communication. Versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.16 contain a prototype pollution vulnerability in `mergeDeep` after merging results of two standard schema validations with the same key. Due to the ordering of merging, there must be an any type that is set as a standalone guard, to allow for the `__proto__ prop` to be merged. When combined with GHSA-8vch-m3f4-q8jf this allows for a full RCE by an attacker. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.17. To workaround, remove the `__proto__ key` from body.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-09 20:11 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7580 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
elysiajs elysia Affected: >= 1.4.0, < 1.4.17
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