# CVE-2025-66456: Elysia vulnerable to prototype pollution with multiple standalone schema validation

- Also known as: GHSA-HXJ9-33PP-J2CC
- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.17
- Published: 2025-12-09 · Updated: 2025-12-09

## Affected

- elysiajs elysia: from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.4.17
- elysia (npm): from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.4.17

## Description

Elysia is a Typescript framework for request validation, type inference, OpenAPI documentation and client-server communication. Versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.16 contain a prototype pollution vulnerability in `mergeDeep` after merging results of two standard schema validations with the same key. Due to the ordering of merging, there must be an any type that is set as a standalone guard, to allow for the `__proto__ prop` to be merged. When combined with GHSA-8vch-m3f4-q8jf this allows for a full RCE by an attacker. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.17. To workaround, remove the `__proto__ key` from body.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on elysiajs elysia, elysia, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.17) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/security/advisories/GHSA-hxj9-33pp-j2cc
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/security/advisories/GHSA-8vch-m3f4-q8jf
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/pull/1564
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/commit/26935bf76ebc43b4a43d48b173fc853de43bb51e
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/commit/3af978663e437dccc6c1a2a3aff4b74e1574849e

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