CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-7639

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.10%

65th percentile - higher than 65% of all known CVEs

Summary

The eivindfjeldstad-dot library below 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The 'set' function can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of 'Object.prototype' using a '__proto__' payload.

Risk Assessment

Prototype pollution can lead to unexpected application behavior, security control bypass, or code execution. The risk affects Node.js applications using this library for object path manipulation.

Recommendation

Upgrade eivindfjeldstad-dot to version 1.0.3 or later. Verify that untrusted input is not passed to the 'set' function.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

eivindfjeldstad-dot below 1.0.3 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution.The function 'set' could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of 'Object.prototype' using a '__proto__' payload.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS