UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16487

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16487
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16487.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16487
Upstream
Published
2019-02-01T18:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:00Z
Severity
  • 5.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / node-lodash

Package

Name
node-lodash
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-lodash@2.4.1+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.4.1+dfsg-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-lodash",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1+dfsg-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "node-lodash",
            "binary_version": "2.4.1+dfsg-3"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / node-lodash

Package

Name
node-lodash
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-lodash@4.17.4+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.17.4+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-lodash",
            "binary_version": "4.17.4+dfsg-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "node-lodash",
            "binary_version": "4.17.4+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}