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GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg

xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2020-28502

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm xmlhttprequest < 1.7.0 1.7.0
npm xmlhttprequest-ssl < 1.6.2 1.6.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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