Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package node-yargs-parser  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-NODEYARGSPARSER-634842
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed16 Mar 2020

Introduced: 16 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-7608  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-yargs-parser package and not the node-yargs-parser package as distributed by Ubuntu.

yargs-parser could be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype using a "proto" payload.