Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-16491

critical

CVE-2018-16491

nodejs-extend: Prototype pollution in Object.prototype

Published Modified CWE 400, 74
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat4.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Node.js Security WG (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in node.extend <1.1.7, ~<2.0.1 that allows an attacker to inject arbitrary properties onto Object.prototype.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmnode.extend1.1.7, 2.0.1
debian 11node-extend3.0.2-1
debian 12node-extend3.0.2-1
debian 13node-extend3.0.2-1
debian 14node-extend3.0.2-1
echonode-extend3.0.2-1
npm::Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Groupnode.extend^1.1.7, >= 2.0.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMnode-extendno fix listed

References

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