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CVE-2021-23702 — object-extend

CRITICAL

CVE-2021-23702 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-1321 vulnerability in object-extend. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

Prototype Pollution in object-extend

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 3, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
1.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs71th percentile — riskier than 71% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.63%1.25%1.88%0.4%1.4%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2021-23702 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 385,987 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

23other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
object-extendnpm
527downloads / week

Description

The package object-extend from 0.0.0 through 0.5.0 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via object-extend.

Affected Packages

1 total
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmobject-extendall versionsNo fix

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
object-extendobject-extend_project
≤ 0.5.0
range
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

The package object-extend from 0.0.0 are vulnerable to Prototype Polluti…

snyk.ioNVDFeb 2022

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for object-extend, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Remediation status

    No patched version of object-extend has shipped for CVE-2021-23702 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

The package object-extend from 0.0.0 through 0.5.0 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via object-extend.
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CVE-2021-23702: object-extend: Prototype Pollution