UBUNTU-CVE-2021-31597

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-31597

    Published: 23 Apr 2021Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-31597

    Summary:

    Details: The xmlhttprequest-ssl package before 1.6.1 for Node.js disables SSL certificate validation by default, because rejectUnauthorized (when the property exists but is undefined) is considered to be false within the https.request function of Node.js. In other words, no certificate is ever rejected.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-31597, https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/bf53329b61ca6afc5d28f6b8d2dc2e3ca740a9b2, https://people.kingsds.network/wesgarland/xmlhttprequest-ssl-vuln.txt, https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/compare/v1.6.0...1.6.1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-31597

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-xmlhttprequest-ssl

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

    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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