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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in org.webjars.npm:xmlhttprequest

CVE-2020-28502

  • org.webjars.npm:xmlhttprequest
  • org.webjars.npm:xmlhttprequest-ssl
  • xmlhttprequest
  • xmlhttprequest-ssl
High
8.1/10

Summary

This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0 and xmlhttprequest-ssl before 1.6.2. 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.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published