jonschlinkert/expand-object · Security
expand-object Vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the expand() Function
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-4vjr-hfpp-2m7w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-3197
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS v4
- 5.5 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Description
Versions of the package expand-object from 0.0.0 to 0.4.2 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in the expand() function in index.js. This function expands the given string into an object and allows a nested property to be set without checking the provided keys for sensitive properties like proto.
CWEs
- CWE-1321 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3197 ↗
- https://gist.github.com/miguelafmonteiro/d8f66af61d14e06338b688f90c4dfa7c ↗
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-EXPANDOBJECT-5821390 ↗
- https://github.com/jonschlinkert/expand-object/blob/master/index.js#L13 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vjr-hfpp-2m7w ↗