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tinypool 2.1.1 reads filename from the pool.run(task, options) options object without an own-property check. Prototype pollution elsewhere in an app can then redirect the worker to an attacker-controlled module (RCE). 2.1.2 is the patched release.

• Override (frontend/pnpm-workspace.yaml): tinypool@2.1.0: 2.1.1 becomes tinypool@<2.1.2: 2.1.2. The new range keeps any pre-2.1.2 spec from resolving to a vulnerable version.
• Release-age policy: tinypool is added to minimumReleaseAgeExclude. Without this, the 7-day minimumReleaseAge would block the fresh patch.
• Lockfile (frontend/pnpm-lock.yaml): regenerated with pnpm install --lockfile-only, not hand-edited. tinypool now resolves to 2.1.2 only.

Reachability Assessment

Not reachable; the update is mainly to satisfy vulnerability scanners. tinypool is a transitive dev dependency of vitest and runs only in the frontend test tooling. The repo never calls pool.run() with an options object, and no attacker-controlled input reaches it. I did not grep the source for tinypool usage; this rests on how tinypool is pulled in.

Confidence: high.

Original prompt

---

This section details the Dependabot vulnerability alert you should resolve

<alert_title>Tinypool: Prototype Pollution Gadget to RCE in run() options</alert_title>
<alert_description>tinypool is a fork of piscina and inherited the same prototype-pollution surface. When pool.run(task, options) is called, the filename option is read from the provided options object. If that object does not have an own filename property, the lookup falls through to Object.prototype.

An attacker who can pollute Object.prototype.filename (for example, via a vulnerable lodash.merge, qs.parse, or similar elsewhere in the application) can make tinypool load and execute an attacker-controlled worker module.

This is the tinypool counterpart to the piscina root discovery GHSA-x9g3-xrwr-cwfg.

pool.run(task) with no second argument is not affected, because kDefaultOptions.filename is null and the options object is not user-controlled. The exploit only triggers when the caller passes their own options object to pool.run().

Impact

Arbitrary JavaScript execution in the worker pool. If the application passes attacker-controlled data as the run() task and also supplies a run() options object, the attacker can redirect execution to a malicious worker that exfiltrates or modifies that data, achieving remote code execution and/or data exfiltration.

Proof of Concept

// legitimate-worker.mjs
export default async (task) => ({ by: 'legitimate-worker', processed: task })

// malicious-worker.mjs
export default async (task) => ({ by: 'attacker', stolenRequestBody: task })

// main.js
import express from "express";
import Tinypool from "tinypool";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import path from "node:path";

const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

// Simulate upstream prototype pollution (lodash merge, qs parse, etc.)
Object.prototype.filename = path.join(__dirname, "malicious-worker.mjs");

const pool = new Tinypool({
  filename: path.join(__dirname, "legitimate-worker.mjs"),
});

express()
  .use(express.json())
  .post("/", async (req, res) => {
    const ac = new AbortController();
    const result = await pool.run(req.body, { signal: ac.signal });
    res.json(result);
  })
  .listen(31337);

Suggested fix

Read all user-supplied options from own properties only (Object.hasOwn or Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call) and build the internal ThreadPool.options object with a null prototype.</alert_description>

critical
GHSA-85c8-ppgw-ccpr, CVE-2026-104849
tinypool
npm
<vulnerable_versions>2.1.1</vulnerable_versions>
<patched_version>2.1.2</patched_version>
<manifest_path>frontend/pnpm-lock.yaml</manifest_path>

https://github.com/tinylibs/tinypool/security/advisories/GHSA-85c8-ppgw-ccpr https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104849 https://github.com/tinylibs/tinypool/pull/135 https://github.com/tinylibs/tinypool/commit/f41411a3e23324c674f35a19a3240f7a7c40ffbf https://github.com/tinylibs/tinypool/releases/tag/v2.1.2 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-85c8-ppgw-ccpr

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Copilot review overview

🟡 Changes recommended

The reachability assessment incorrectly attributes tinypool to Vitest rather than oxfmt.

Review effort: Balanced
Findings: 1

Open (1)

• Incorrect tinypool reachability path attributed to Vitest · New

What changed in this PR

Updates tinypool to the patched 2.1.2 release to address GHSA-85c8-ppgw-ccpr.

Changes:

• Overrides vulnerable tinypool versions with 2.1.2.
• Exempts the security release from the minimum-release-age policy.
• Regenerates the lockfile with the patched resolution.

File	Description
frontend/​pnpm-workspace.yaml	Configures the patched override and release-age exemption.
frontend/​pnpm-lock.yaml	Locks oxfmt’s tinypool dependency to 2.1.2.

Files not reviewed (1)

• frontend/pnpm-lock.yaml: Generated file

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