CVE-2018-3721: Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID)

June 7, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

lodash node module suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability via defaultsDeep, merge, and mergeWith functions, which allows a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via __proto__, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3721

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