CVE-2020-28502
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 17.4%xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection
Published: 5/4/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/node-xmlhttprequestfrom 0, < 1.8.0-1
- npm/xmlhttprequestfrom 0, < 1.7.0
- npm/xmlhttprequest-sslfrom 0, < 1.6.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28502
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28502
- WEBhttps://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js%23L480
- WEBhttps://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js#L480
- WEBhttps://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/983cfc244c7567ad6a59e366e55a8037e0497fe6
- WEBhttps://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/ae38832a0f1347c5e96dda665402509a3458e302/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js#L531
- WEBhttps://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/ee1e81fc67729c7c0eba5537ed7fe1e30a6b3291
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936