CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16472

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-400

Description

A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack.

Affected configurations

• cached-path-relative project cached-path-relative (<= 1.0.1) • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References