CVE-2020-28502

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-28502
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-05 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-16 16:12:00 UTC
DescriptionThis 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-94

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xmlhttprequest Project Xmlhttprequest All All All All
Application Xmlhttprequest Project Xmlhttprequest All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Arbitrary Code Injection in org.webjars.npm:xmlhttprequest-ssl | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Arbitrary Code Injection in org.webjars.npm:xmlhttprequest | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.j... MISC github.com Broken Link
Arbitrary Code Injection in xmlhttprequest-ssl | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Arbitrary Code Injection in xmlhttprequest | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
node-XMLHttpRequest/XMLHttpRequest.js at 1.6.0 · driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest · GitHub MITRE github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: rinsuki

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982688 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for xmlhttprequest-ssl (GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg)

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