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Prototype Pollution

A JavaScript-specific vulnerability that allows modifying the prototype of global objects, affecting the behavior of the entire application. Prototype pollution can lead to authentication bypasses, XSS injections, or code execution. It is common in Node.js applications using insecure deep merge functions.

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