Medium
Security advisory
A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash <4.17.11 where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16487
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 08:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash <4.17.11 where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.
osv:CVE-2018-16487
Complete source record
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