CVE-2020-28502

Name	CVE-2020-28502
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
node-xmlhttprequest (PTS)	buster	1.8.0-1	fixed
	bullseye	1.8.0-3	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	1.8.0-4	fixed
node-xmlhttprequest-ssl (PTS)	buster	1.6.0-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency
node-xmlhttprequest	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
node-xmlhttprequest	source	(unstable)	1.8.0-1
node-xmlhttprequest-ssl	source	stretch	(unfixed)	end-of-life
node-xmlhttprequest-ssl	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

[stretch] - node-xmlhttprequest <end-of-life> (Nodejs in stretch not covered by security support)
[buster] - node-xmlhttprequest-ssl <ignored> (Minor issue, should possibly be removed from stable as well)
[stretch] - node-xmlhttprequest-ssl <end-of-life> (Nodejs in stretch not covered by security support)
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936