Advisory record · GHSA-5gmw-xhrv-c9v3

Tinypool: Prototype Pollution gadget in worker options leads to Remote Code Execution

CVSS 9.5 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0050 · 43rd percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.5: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
tinypoolnpm<2.1.12.1.1
Identifiers
GHSA-5gmw-xhrv-c9v3 · CVE-2026-104848
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1321
Published
5 Oct 2026
Updated
5 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Tinypool versions before 2.1.1 pass worker options to Node's worker_threads.Worker by reading them through the prototype chain, so a prototype-pollution flaw elsewhere in an application's dependencies can inject options such as execArgv or env. An attacker who can pollute Object.prototype can then make pool workers load attacker-controlled code, gaining code execution with the host process's privileges. Upgrade tinypool to version 2.1.1 or later, which the advisory lists as the fixed version.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.5 Critical 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0050, the 43rd percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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