CVE-2018-16487

unknown
Published 2019-02-07 · Modified 2025-08-12
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash <4.17.11 where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16487

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.17.11+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.17.11+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.17.11+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.17.11+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.17.11+dfsg-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemslodash-rails<>= 4.17.11>= 4.17.11
npm npmlodash<4.17.114.17.11
ruby RubyGemslodash-rails<4.17.114.17.11

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.