CRITICAL9.8

GHSA-xg47-r67p-vhv5

Improper Input Validation in Deap

Quick fix

GHSA-xg47-r67p-vhv5 — deap: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install deap@1.0.1

Details

The utilities function in all versions < 1.0.1 of the deap node module can be tricked into modifying the prototype of Object when the attacker can control part of the structure passed to this function. This can let an attacker add or modify existing properties that will exist on all objects.

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Affected packages

npm/deap

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.0.1

Fixnpm install deap@1.0.1

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3749[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/selfcontained/deap/commit/ed27b7e890bdd616e1ee931ea1c64228e2b52a71[WEB]
https://hackerone.com/reports/310446[WEB]
https://github.com/selfcontained/deap[PACKAGE]