Critical
Security advisory
The package extend2 before 1.0.1 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the extend function due to unsafe recursive merge.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23568
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The package extend2 before 1.0.1 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the extend function due to unsafe recursive merge.
osv:CVE-2021-23568
Complete source record
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