{"id":"CVE-2018-16472","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16472","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:49:04.693Z","title":"A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack.","description":"A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack.","published":"2018-11-06T19:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:44:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400","CWE-20"],"affected":["cached-path-relative project/cached-path-relative","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.02141,"percentile":0.81958,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://hackerone.com/reports/390847","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00006.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://hackerone.com/reports/390847","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00006.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16472","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}