CVE-2020-36618

CVE-2020-36618 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability affecting Furqan node-whois, specifically within an unknown function in the index.coffee file. This flaw allows for remote, unauthenticated attacks with low complexity, enabling an attacker to modify object prototype attributes. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.