Abstract: Prototype pollution is a type of recently-discovered, impactful vulnerability that affects JavaScript code. One important yet challenging research problem of prototype pollution is how to ...

Sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, used by nearly 900 NPM packages, allows attackers to bypass security protections and execute arbitrary code. A critical vulnerability has been patched in vm2, a ...

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service ...

Abstract: With the emergence of the Node.js ecosystem, JavaScript has become a widely used programming language for implementing server-side web applications. In this article, we present the first ...

Microsoft is calling attention to an ongoing malvertising campaign that makes use of Node.js to deliver malicious payloads capable of information theft and data exfiltration. The activity, first ...

Microsoft on Tuesday issued a warning over the increasing use of Node.js for the delivery of malware and other malicious payloads. The tech giant has been seeing such attacks aimed at its customers ...