CVE-2024-38986

FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-38986 describes a critical Prototype Pollution vulnerability in 75lb deep-merge version 1.1.1. This flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service, or achieve other impacts by manipulating object merging via lodash methods. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, its critical severity warrants immediate attention.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:75lb:deep-merge:1.1.1:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.98%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

58.7%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: @75lb/deep-mergeFixed in: 1.1.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-28mc-g557-92m7high

@75lb/deep-merge Prototype Pollution vulnerability

Jul 30, 2024

References

gist.github.com / mestrtee/b20c3aee8bea16e1863933778da6e4cb

Exploit