Back Linuxsecurity Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Lodash Critical Prototype Pollution Vuln USN-8411
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Ubuntu 25.10 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Lodash. Software Description: - node-lodash: A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras Details: It was discovered that Lodash was vulnerable to a prototype pollution issue in the zipObjectDeep function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to modify application behavior. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-8203) Liyuan Chen discovered that Lodash was vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service issue in the toNumber, trim, and trimEnd functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28500) Marc ...
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libjs-lodash 4.17.23+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 4.17.23+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash-packages 4.17.23+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 25.10 libjs-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.25.10.1 node-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.25.10.1 node-lodash-packages 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.25.10.1 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libjs-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash-packages 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-9ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libjs-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-5ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-5ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash-packages 4.17.21+dfsg+~cs8.31.198.20210220-5ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libjs-lodash 4.17.15+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 4.17.15+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash-packages 4.17.15+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libjs-lodash 4.17.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 4.17.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libjs-lodash 2.4.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro node-lodash 2.4.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
CVE-2020-28500, CVE-2020-8203, CVE-2021-23337, CVE-2025-13465,
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8411-1
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