CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-16469
High (7.5) in merge project merge. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in merge 1.2.1.
The merge.recursive function in the merge package <1.2.1 can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of the Object prototype. These properties will be present on all objects allowing for a denial of service attack.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-20, CWE-400
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- merge_project:merge
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-f9cm-qmx5-m98h | npm | merge | <1.2.1 | 1.2.1 |