CVE-2020-8268
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Prototype pollution in json8-merge-patch
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | json8-merge-patch | <1.0.3 | 1.0.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8268
- https://github.com/sonnyp/JSON8/issues/113
- https://github.com/sonnyp/JSON8/commit/2e890261b66cbc54ae01d0c79c71b0fd18379e7e#diff-faa7bef039022bc7ca1c613331b2373950ddd3d65ebf25d1699fbdf89773a387
- https://hackerone.com/reports/980649
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/json8-merge-patch
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.