CVE-2020-28502GHSA-H4J5-C7CJ-74XG
Arbitrary Code Injection
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 1.7.0, 1.6.2
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- 2 proofs of concept on GitHub
Summary
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.
Timeline
- CVE published
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- n/a xmlhttprequest
fixed in 1.7.0
- n/a xmlhttprequest-ssl
All versions
- xmlhttprequestnpm
fixed in 1.7.0
- xmlhttprequest-sslnpm
fixed in 1.6.2