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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2018-16487)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2018-16487)

According to its self-reported version number, Lodash is prior to 4.17.11. It is, therefore, affected by a prototype pollution vulnerability in the functions merge, mergeWith and defaultsDeep which could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a constructor payload.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250373	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-16487	Nessus	Misc.	medium
422343	SCA: security update for lodash, lodash-rails (GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
422343	SCA: security update for lodash, lodash-rails (GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
113450	Lodash < 4.17.11 Prototype Pollution	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	medium

Detections

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CVE-2018-16487

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