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CVE-2018-16472

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack.

Affected products

• Cached-Path-Relative Project Cached-Path-Relative: through 1.0.1
• Debian Linux: 10.0

References

• https://hackerone.com/reports/390847
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00006.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/390847
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00006.html

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