{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including xmlhttprequest and xmlhttprequest-ssl. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28502 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade xmlhttprequest to 1.7.0 or later.","what":"CVE-2020-28502 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in xmlhttprequest, published on 5 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-28502 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-28502 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in xmlhttprequest, published on 5 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28502 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- xmlhttprequest (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.7.0\n- xmlhttprequest (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.7.0\n- xmlhttprequest-ssl (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.6.2\n- xmlhttprequest-ssl (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.6.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28502/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28502/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-28502","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28502/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-28502","record":{"aliases":["CLSA-2026-1777336760","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28502","GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28502"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Node.js HTTP library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via malicious input in synchronous requests using vulnerable Node.js HTTP libraries.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"snyk","cpe":[{"product":"xmlhttprequest","vendor":"xmlhttprequest_project"}],"cvss":{"score":8.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"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.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2021-05-12","github_poc":2,"max_poc_stars":3,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2021-05-12T12:11:03Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/s-index/CVE-2020-28502","stars":3,"title":"CVE-2020-28502 node-XMLHttpRequest RCE"},{"date":"2021-07-28T11:01:56Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/dpredrag/CVE-2020-28502","stars":0,"title":null}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Arbitrary Code Injection","id":"CVE-2020-28502","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":"code_injection","year":"2020"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Prototype Pollution","id":"CVE-2020-28503"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.7.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xmlhttprequest","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.7.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xmlhttprequest","purl":"pkg:npm/xmlhttprequest","source":"GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.6.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xmlhttprequest-ssl","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.6.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"xmlhttprequest-ssl","purl":"pkg:npm/xmlhttprequest-ssl","source":"GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg"}],"prev":{"headline":"Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)","id":"CVE-2020-28501"},"products":["xmlhttprequest","xmlhttprequest-ssl"],"published":"2021-03-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via malicious input in synchronous requests using vulnerable Node.js HTTP libraries.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28502/"}