High
Security advisory
Prototype pollution in json-bigint npm package < 1.0.0 may lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8237
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Prototype pollution in json-bigint npm package < 1.0.0 may lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
osv:CVE-2020-8237
Complete source record
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