Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

browserify/crypto-browserify

              master @ 55476ac
            

Fixes

CVEs

MEDIUM

Peak severity

Highlights

Prototype Pollution: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

index.js: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Prototype Pollution: The failure to properly declare the internal '_alg' variable with 'var', 'let', or 'const' inside the 'createHash' function leaked it into the global scope, potentially allowing execution context manipulation or prototype pollution.