Prototype pollution attack
- An injection attack on JavaScript runtimes. Prototype pollution can allow an attacker to control the default values of object properties, which may in turn allow to alter application logic, and then be used for denial of service (DoS) attacks as well as for remote code execution (RCE).
- Related terms: Prototype, Prototype chain, HTTP flood attack, Arbitrary code execution
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