Vulnerability: Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) in hoek Node Module

CVE-2018-3728 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

hoek node module before 4.2.0 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability via 'merge' and 'applyToDefaults' functions, which allows a malicious user to modify the prototype of "Object" via __proto__, causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

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