A weakness has been identified in primefaces primereact up to 10.9.8. This issue affects the function ObjectUtils.mutateFieldData of the component API. This manipulation of the argument Field causes improperly controlled modification of object prototype attributes. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
CVE-2026-15538
Score 6.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.3
- EG Score
- 6.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 28(Track)EG Risk 28/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity63% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 17.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 13, 2026
Last Modified
July 13, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 13, 2026GitHub - primefaces/primereact: The Most Complete React UI Component Library · GitHub
https://github.com/primefaces/primereact/Prototype pollution in ObjectUtils.mutateFieldData via primereact/utils · Issue #50 · Mantle-UI/mantle-ui · GitHub
https://github.com/Mantle-UI/mantle-ui/issues/50Prototype pollution in ObjectUtils.mutateFieldData via primereact/utils · Issue #8553 · primefaces/primereact · GitHub
https://github.com/primefaces/primereact/issues/8553Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-15538(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(2)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 17× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-23 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-23 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:24 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 17:02 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-16 12:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 10:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 02:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-14 08:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 06:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 06:32 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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