UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28502

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28502

    Published: 5 Mar 2021Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-28502

    Summary:

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28502, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936, https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js%23L480, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28502

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-xmlhttprequest

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.6.0-1

    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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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