Detections
Analytics
CVE-2024-21505
high
Description
Versions of the package web3-utils before 4.2.1 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the utility functions format and mergeDeep, due to insecure recursive merge. An attacker can manipulate an object's prototype, potentially leading to the alteration of the behavior of all objects inheriting from the affected prototype by passing specially crafted input to these functions.
References
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WEB3UTILS-6229337
https://github.com/web3/web3.js/commit/8ed041c6635d807b3da8960ad49e125e3d1b0e80