CVE-2022-37616

critical

Description

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."

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00023.html

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgh-qqpf-7wqj

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1327776560

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L3

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L1

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-10-11

Updated: 2023-02-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical