CRITICAL9.8

GHSA-7h43-gx24-p529

Prototype pollution in json8

Quick fix

GHSA-7h43-gx24-p529 — json8: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install json8@1.0.3

Details

This affects the package json8 before 1.0.3. The function adds in the target object the property specified in the path, however it does not properly check the key being set, leading to a prototype pollution.

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Affected packages

npm/json8

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.0.3

Fixnpm install json8@1.0.3

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7770[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/sonnyp/JSON8/commit/2e890261b66cbc54ae01d0c79c71b0fd18379e7e[WEB]
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSON8-1017116[WEB]
https://www.npmjs.com/package/json8[WEB]