CVE-2022-37616

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    CVE-2022-37616

    Published: 11 Oct 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js in the xmldom (published as @xmldom/xmldom) package before 0.8.3 for Node.js via the p variable. NOTE: the vendor states "we are in the process of marking this report as invalid"; however, some third parties takes the position that "A prototype injection/Prototype pollution is not just when global objects are polluted with recursive merge or deep cloning but also when a target object is polluted."

    References: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L1, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L3, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/37xxx/CVE-2022-37616.json, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgh-qqpf-7wqj, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37616, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1327776560, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00023.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.7.5
    0.7.4
    0.7.3
    0.7.2
    0.7.1
    0.7.0+scoped
    0.7.0+unscoped
    0.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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