MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-93753 (CVSS 8.7)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 18, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.4%
deepmerge through 4.3.1 contains a prototype poisoning vulnerability in the mergeObject() function that fails to properly validate keys being written to target objects. Attackers can supply malicious source objects in merge operations to inject attacker-controlled properties into the returned object's prototype, causing applications to inherit unintended values when accessing properties without own-property checks.
Technical details
CVSS
8.7
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None
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