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Security Fix for Prototype Pollution - huntr.dev #107

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions lib/index.ts
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Expand Up @@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ class Y18N {
}

updateLocale (obj: Locale) {
if (this.locale === '__proto__') {
throw new Error('Prototype pollution attempt detected')
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Throwing an error doesn’t seem useful here; it seems like the proper fix would be to set a strong property instead of looking up the [[Prototype]].

}

if (!this.cache[this.locale]) this._readLocaleFile()

for (const key in obj) {
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