GHSA-6xwr-q98w-rvg7
Prototype Pollution in nconf
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
nconf before 0.11.4. When using the memory engine, it is possible to store a nested JSON representation of the configuration. The .set() function, that is responsible for setting the configuration properties, is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. By providing a crafted property, it is possible to modify the properties on the Object.prototype.
References
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