CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-37616

Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Published: Oct 11, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js in the xmldom (published as @xmldom/xmldom) package before 0.8.3 for Node.js via the p variable. NOTE: the vendor states we are in the process of marking this report as invalid; however, some third parties takes the position that A prototype injection/Prototype pollution is not just when global objects are polluted with recursive merge or deep cloning but also when a target object is polluted.

Weakness

The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xmldom Xmldom_project * 0.6.0 (including)
Xmldom Xmldom_project 0.7.0 (including) 0.7.6 (excluding)
Xmldom Xmldom_project 0.8.0 (including) 0.8.3 (excluding)
Xmldom Xmldom_project 0.9.0-beta1 (including) 0.9.0-beta1 (including)
Node-xmldom Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu focal *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu jammy *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu kinetic *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu trusty *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu upstream *
Node-xmldom Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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