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CVE-2018-16469 (GCVE-0-2018-16469)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-30 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:24
VLAI
Summary
The merge.recursive function in the merge package <1.2.1 can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of the Object prototype. These properties will be present on all objects allowing for a denial of service attack.
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
References
URL Tags
https://hackerone.com/reports/381194 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HackerOne merge Affected: <1.2.1
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Date Public
2018-10-30 00:00
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