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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
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: almost 3 years ago
Updated: 5 months 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

Identifiers: GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg, CVE-2020-28502
References: Repository: https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest
Blast Radius: 59.1

Affected Packages

npm:xmlhttprequest-ssl
Dependent packages: 136
Dependent repositories: 1,076,748
Downloads: 16,723,816 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 1.6.2
Fixed in: 1.6.2
All affected versions: 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.6.0, 1.6.1
All unaffected versions: 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1
npm:xmlhttprequest
Dependent packages: 1,872
Dependent repositories: 309,954
Downloads: 5,417,064 last month
Affected Version Ranges: < 1.7.0
Fixed in: 1.7.0
All affected versions: 1.0.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.6.0
All unaffected versions: 1.7.0, 1.8.0