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CVE-2022-25878

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-25878 is a Prototype Pollution vulnerability affecting protobufjs versions prior to 6.11.3, allowing an attacker to modify Object.prototype properties through untrusted input or parsing .proto files. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:protobufjs_project:protobufjs:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: protobufjsFixed in: 6.11.3
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: protobufjsFixed in: 6.10.3
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-g954-5hwp-pp24high

Prototype Pollution in protobufjs

May 28, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-25878Moderate

protobufjs: Prototype Pollution via util.setProperty or ReflectionObject.setParsedOption methods

May 27, 2022

References

github.com / protobufjs/protobuf.js/blob/d13d5d5688052e366aa2e9169f50dfca376b32cf/src/util.js%23L176-L197
Broken Link
github.com / protobufjs/protobuf.js/commit/b5f1391dff5515894830a6570e6d73f5511b2e8f
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / protobufjs/protobuf.js/pull/1731
PatchThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2841507
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PROTOBUFJS-2441248
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory