GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

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    GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

    Published: 4 May 2021Last Modified: 14 Jan 2025

    Summary: xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28502, https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/983cfc244c7567ad6a59e366e55a8037e0497fe6, https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/ee1e81fc67729c7c0eba5537ed7fe1e30a6b3291, 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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xmlhttprequest

    Purl: pkg:npm/xmlhttprequest

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg | CVE-DB