High
Security advisory
merge-deep node module before 3.0.1 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-2018-3722
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
merge-deep node module before 3.0.1 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-2018-3722
Complete source record
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