CVE-2026-41690
Prototype pollution and path traversal in i18next-http-middleware via user-controlled language and namespace parameters
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.6EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
08 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
18next-http-middleware is a middleware to be used with Node.js web frameworks like express or Fastify and also for Deno. Versions prior to 3.9.3 allow an unauthenticated HTTP client to pollute Object.prototype in the Node.js process hosting the middleware, via two unvalidated entry points that reach internal object-key writes: getResourcesHandler and missingKeyHandler. This can break authorisation checks (if (user.isAdmin) returning true for any user), cause type-confusion DoS, and depending on downstream code it can be chained into RCE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Affected products
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