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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-16469

These properties will be present on all objects allowing for a denial of service attack.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.68%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.68% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400, CWE-20
Affected
merge project/merge
Source
support@hackerone.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.