ADVISORIES

• CVE-2018-3721 (NVD)
• GHSA-fvqr-27wr-82fm

GEM

lodash-rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 6.5 (Medium)

CVSS v2.0: 4.0 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 4.17.5

DESCRIPTION

Versions of lodash before 4.17.5 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.

The vulnerable functions are 'defaultsDeep', 'merge', and 'mergeWith' which allow 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.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.17.5 or later."

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3721
• https://hackerone.com/reports/310443
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/577
• https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/d8e069cc3410082e44eb18fcf8e7f3d08ebe1d4a
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190919-0004
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fvqr-27wr-82fm