High
Security advisory
assign-deep node module before 0.4.7 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability, 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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-3720
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
assign-deep node module before 0.4.7 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability, 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.
osv:CVE-2018-3720
Complete source record
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