Description
A prototype pollution attack in cached-path-relative versions <=1.0.1 allows an attacker to inject properties on Object.prototype which are then inherited by all the JS objects through the prototype chain causing a DoS attack.
Remediation
References
https://hackerone.com/reports/390847
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00006.html
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