GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-fx6f-382r-j72c CyberChef: Prototype pollution in Series Chart operation
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-57439
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- cyberchef
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1321, CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-24
Affected packages
• npm cyberchef: < 11.2.0 → fixed in 11.2.0
Description
On 5 June 2026 CyberChef received a security vulnerability report from @hyuunnn detailing a vulnerability in the Series Chart operation, where malicious input could result in prototype pollution of the data structures outputted from the operation.
Other operations following Series Chart could have their behaviour manipulated by the attacker-controlled prototype, for example, injecting malicious content into their HTML output.
In this case, a demonstration was provided that chained the Series Chart operation with the Parse UDP operation to cause attacker controlled JavaScript to be executed.
Details
When the Series Chart operation parses user-supplied CSV, it accepts `__proto__` as a key and uses it to pollute the object.
The objToTbale function in src/core/lib/Protocol.mjs, used in a number of IP parsing operations, renders data items within `` tags without escaping.
These bugs can be chained to produce an XSS vulnerability.
Proof of Concept
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Series_chart('CRLF','Comma','',1,'')Parse_UDP('Raw')&input=X19wcm90b19fLDxpbWcgc3JjPXggb25lcnJvcj1hbGVydChkb2N1bWVudC5kb21haW4pPiwxParse_UDP('Raw')&input=X19wcm90b19fLDxpbWcgc3JjPXggb25lcnJvcj1hbGVydChkb2N1bWVudC5kb21haW4pPiwx)
Encoded input data is:
```
__proto__,,1
```
Impact
Objects with attacker controlled prototypes could be processed by CyberChef operations. This enabled control of the output of some operations, and in particular, the ability to insert malicious JavaScript into the output of the Parse UDP operation.
Patches
This has been patched in release v11.2.0.
Workarounds
No workarounds are available. Users must upgrade to CyberChef v11.2.0.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-57439 CyberChef is a web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/security/advisories/GHSA-fx6f-382r-j72c web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57439 advisory
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/issues/2568 web
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/pull/2569 web
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/commit/85db3be5d0096859b810f0e8d3e151d5dc9b948f web
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef package
- https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/releases/tag/v11.2.0 web