Uncontrolled resource consumption in HackerOne lodash
Priority LOW 28CWE-400Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 11 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
A prototype pollution vulnerability was found in lodash <4.17.11 where the functions merge, mergeWith, and defaultsDeep can be tricked into adding or modifying properties of Object.prototype.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.01491 74th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Partial lodash (HackerOne): 4.7.11lodash (npm): 4.17.11+1 more productRed Hat: 11 without a fix
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HackerOne | lodash | before 4.7.11 | 4.7.11 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | lodash (npm) | before 4.17.11 | 4.17.11 | Patch available | GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574 |
| — | lodash-rails (RubyGems) | before 4.17.11 | 4.17.11 | Patch available | GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574 |
- lodash VendorHackerOne Affected before 4.7.11 Fixed in 4.7.11 Patch available CNA
- lodash (npm) Vendor— Affected before 4.17.11 Fixed in 4.17.11 Patch available GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574
- lodash-rails (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected before 4.17.11 Fixed in 4.17.11 Patch available GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574
Remediation
- Fix · CNA lodash (HackerOne) Fixed in 4.7.11
- Fix · GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574 lodash (npm) Fixed in 4.17.11 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574 lodash-rails (RubyGems) Fixed in 4.17.11 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
Not affected: 2 products
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-16487
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574
References
Exploit 1
Advisory 2
More Lodash vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-06035 Command injection in Lodash CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
- TI-2026-04185 lodash vulnerable to Code Injection via `_.template` imports key names CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-08009 Prototype pollution in Snyk lodash CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2020-06621 Prototype pollution attack when using _.zipObjectDeep in lodash before 4.17.20. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.4
- TI-2025-12309 Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in Lodash _.unset and _.omit functions CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2020-17303 Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) in Lodash CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
Sources
- CVE-2018-16487 · CVE Program
- CVE-2018-16487 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2018-16487 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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