Critical, CVSS 9.8npmAmendedPublished
xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection
CVE-2020-28502 · GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg
- Affected
- npm xmlhttprequest < 1.7.0
- Fixed in
- 1.7.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.7.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.