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Prototype Pollution: What Cursor's Object Merge Code Misses
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Prototype Pollution: What Cursor's Object Merge Code Misses

DEV Community·Charles Kern·about 1 month ago
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TL;DR Cursor and Claude Code default to for...in object merge -- a CWE-1321 prototype pollution vector Root cause: AI training data skews toward pre-2019 StackOverflow answers that predate Object.hasOwn() One-line fix closes it entirely -- AI just never adds it unless you ask Last week I was reviewing a side project a friend asked me to look over. Node backend, built almost entirely in Cursor. Clean structure, good variable names, even some inline comments. Genuinely readable. Then I hit the utility functions. One was a deep merge helper. The kind every backend has -- takes two objects, recursively merges keys. AI writes these instantly. The problem is what it doesn't write.…

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