A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• CWE-400: Denial of Service (CWE-400) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• npm · cached-path-relative

  • affected <=1.0.1

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• npmcached-path-relativeGHSA-hc9w-4p87-j549 (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/390847 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20221204 [SECURITY] [DLA 3221-1] node-cached-path-relative security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-hc9w-4p87-j549 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 10:24 UTC.