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Fencer Intel
high 7.3

CVE-2020-7679 json

Prototype Pollution

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-vrr3-5r3v-7xfw , EUVD-2021-1207

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In all versions of package casperjs, the mergeObjects utility function is susceptible to Prototype Pollution.

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Exploit prediction

2.01% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-572804 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CASPERJS-572803 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm casperjs
<=1.1.4
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • n/a casperjs

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes
  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

References

Sources

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