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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWg0ajUtYzdjai03NHhn

xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection

This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. Provided requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send could result in arbitrary code being injected and run.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWg0ajUtYzdjai03NHhn
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: over 3 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.02157
EPSS Percentile: 0.88976

Identifiers: GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg, CVE-2020-28502
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28502
• https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/983cfc244c7567ad6a59e366e55a8037e0497fe6
• https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js#L480
• https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js%23L480
• https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/ae38832a0f1347c5e96dda665402509a3458e302/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js#L531
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936
• https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/ee1e81fc67729c7c0eba5537ed7fe1e30a6b3291
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

Repository: https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest
Blast Radius: 59.1

Affected Packages