High 8.8Published Feb 4, 2026

CVE-2026-25521Locutus brings stdlibs of other programming languages to JavaScript for educational purposes.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:30 UTC)

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Locutus brings stdlibs of other programming languages to JavaScript for educational purposes. In versions from 2.0.12 to before 2.0.39, a prototype pollution vulnerability exists in locutus. Despite a previous fix that attempted to mitigate prototype pollution by checking whether user input contained a forbidden key, it is still possible to pollute Object.prototype via a crafted input using String.prototype. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.39.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-1321, CWE-915
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jul 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

locutus locutus locutus:locutus	from 2.0.12 before 2.0.39	NVD

References

https://github.com/locutusjs/locutus/commit/042af9ca7fde2ff599120783e720a17f335bb01cpatch
https://github.com/locutusjs/locutus/security/advisories/GHSA-rxrv-835q-v5mhexploit, vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25521
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436950
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-25521.json

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