CVE-2020-28502

moderate-risk
Published 2021-03-05

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.

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17.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 83% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 8.1/10 High
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Xmlhttprequest Project

References (10)

Broken Link https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.j...
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936
Broken Link https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.j...
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935
Exploit https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal