CVE-2020-36604

HIGH8.1EPSS 1.0%

hoek subject to prototype pollution via the clone function.

Published: 9/25/2022Modified: 2/4/2026

Also known as:GHSA-c429-5p7v-vgjpCGA-2wxw-3ggr-3v7x

Description

hoek versions prior to 8.5.1, and 9.x prior to 9.0.3 are vulnerable to prototype pollution in the clone function. If an object with the __proto__ key is passed to clone() the key is converted to a prototype. This issue has been patched in version 9.0.3, and backported to 8.5.1.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/node-hoekfrom 0, < 9.0.3+~5.0.0+~4.0.0-1
npm/@hapi/hoekfrom 0, < 8.5.1
npm/hoekfrom 0, <= 6.1.3

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (5)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36604
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36604
WEBhttps://github.com/hapijs/hoek/commit/4d0804bc6135ad72afdc5e1ec002b935b2f5216a
WEBhttps://github.com/hapijs/hoek/commit/948baf98634a5c206875b67d11368f133034fa90
WEBhttps://github.com/hapijs/hoek/issues/352