Locutus brings stdlibs of other programming languages to JavaScript for educational purposes. In versions from 2.0.12 to before 2.0.39, a prototype pollution vulnerability exists in locutus. Despite a previous fix that attempted to mitigate prototype pollution by checking whether user input contained a forbidden key, it is still possible to pollute Object.prototype via a crafted input using String.prototype. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.39.
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-rxrv-835q-v5mh | locutus is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution |
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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Locutus brings stdlibs of other programming languages to JavaScript for educational purposes. In versions from 2.0.12 to before 2.0.39, a prototype pollution vulnerability exists in locutus. Despite a previous fix that attempted to mitigate prototype pollution by checking whether user input contained a forbidden key, it is still possible to pollute Object.prototype via a crafted input using String.prototype. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.39. | |
| Title | Locutus is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1321 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-04T21:20:32.643Z
Reserved: 2026-02-02T18:21:42.487Z
Link: CVE-2026-25521
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-04T22:15:59.203
Modified: 2026-02-04T22:15:59.203
Link: CVE-2026-25521
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