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That's fair, though somewhat benign barring a prototype pollution vulnerability. The object still behaves the same as it would had you JSON.parse'd the same string (Object.getPrototypeOf aside).

One simple issue would be if your object looks like

x = {"__proto__": {"foo": "bar"}}

now x.foo is "bar" if that's JS code, but undefined if you JSON.parse that same object definition from a string.

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