| 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) | bullseye | 1.8.0-3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.8.0-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.1.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
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